Hungry Children. By Maxine Davis. January 1937 Issue. Share. Save. I. ... Yet four years ago, when we began to hear that American children were hungry, we were only slightly agitated.

Child Hunger by the Numbers A Serious Problem We Can Solve. ... 16.6 million or 22.5 percent: Number of American children living in homes with some level of food insecurity in 2008.

Children and youth who experience hunger appear more likely to have health problems, ... affected approximately 15 percent of American households in 2008, ...

A senior Trump administration official admitted that the closure of USAID led to nearly 500 tons of emergency food intended ...

But on Monday mornings, when the downtown feels shuttered, another sort of crowd, one in search of food, not art and ...

Hispanic children are disproportionately affected by hunger, but SNAP benefits can help families put food on the table, writes Alejandro Garcia. Latinos are becoming a national presence and will ...

PHOENIX — America’s schools say kids are hungry — just as pandemic-era benefit programs have lapsed. There is growing concern about the effects on kids’ ability to learn. Congress ...

Republicans gave thumbs up and danced in the House as they celebrated stripping health insurance from millions of fellow ...

"If kids are hungry they can't learn," she said. Tens of millions of American children rely on their school to provide "breakfast, lunch and sometimes even dinner," Zorio explained.

Children face food insecurity amid pandemic's financial fallout 02:03. Nearly 24 million adults in the U.S. say their families lack food to last them a week, according to the Center on Budget and ...

Nationwide, one of every five American children will go to bed hungry tonight. And this is nothing new. I once met a man who told me that, as children, ...