Hunger In The United States And Related Issues
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Author | : National Research Council |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2006-05-02 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0309180368 |
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The United States is viewed by the world as a country with plenty of food, yet not all households in America are food secure, meaning access at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life. A proportion of the population experiences food insecurity at some time in a given year because of food deprivation and lack of access to food due to economic resource constraints. Still, food insecurity in the United States is not of the same intensity as in some developing countries. Since 1995 the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has annually published statistics on the extent of food insecurity and food insecurity with hunger in U.S. households. These estimates are based on a survey measure developed by the U.S. Food Security Measurement Project, an ongoing collaboration among federal agencies, academic researchers, and private organizations. USDA requested the Committee on National Statistics of the National Academies to convene a panel of experts to undertake a two-year study in two phases to review at this 10-year mark the concepts and methodology for measuring food insecurity and hunger and the uses of the measure. In Phase 2 of the study the panel was to consider in more depth the issues raised in Phase 1 relating to the concepts and methods used to measure food security and make recommendations as appropriate. The Committee on National Statistics appointed a panel of 10 experts to examine the above issues. In order to provide timely guidance to USDA, the panel issued an interim Phase 1 report, Measuring Food Insecurity and Hunger: Phase 1 Report. That report presented the panel's preliminary assessments of the food security concepts and definitions; the appropriateness of identifying hunger as a severe range of food insecurity in such a survey-based measurement method; questions for measuring these concepts; and the appropriateness of a household survey for regularly monitoring food security in the U.S. population. It provided interim guidance for the continued production of the food security estimates. This final report primarily focuses on the Phase 2 charge. The major findings and conclusions based on the panel's review and deliberations are summarized.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Domestic Marketing, Consumer Relations, and Nutrition |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Assistance in emergencies |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Domestic Marketing, Consumer Relations, and Nutrition |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : National Research Council |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 81 |
Release | : 2005-03-22 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0309181933 |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Hunger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Agriculture and state |
ISBN | : |
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Abstract: The report is the product of extensive Select Committee on Hunger research which explores various methods for developing an operational term to define domestic "hunger" problems and the means by which they can scientifically be assessed. A series of options for creating a program to assess hunger in the United States are presented through an examination of various state and community survey, existing definitions of hunger and their applicability to food security.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Domestic Marketing, Consumer Relations, and Nutrition |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Assistance in emergencies |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Andrew Fisher |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2018-04-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0262535165 |
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How to focus anti-hunger efforts not on charity but on the root causes of food insecurity, improving public health, and reducing income inequality. Food banks and food pantries have proliferated in response to an economic emergency. The loss of manufacturing jobs combined with the recession of the early 1980s and Reagan administration cutbacks in federal programs led to an explosion in the growth of food charity. This was meant to be a stopgap measure, but the jobs never came back, and the “emergency food system” became an industry. In Big Hunger, Andrew Fisher takes a critical look at the business of hunger and offers a new vision for the anti-hunger movement. From one perspective, anti-hunger leaders have been extraordinarily effective. Food charity is embedded in American civil society, and federal food programs have remained intact while other anti-poverty programs have been eliminated or slashed. But anti-hunger advocates are missing an essential element of the problem: economic inequality driven by low wages. Reliant on corporate donations of food and money, anti-hunger organizations have failed to hold business accountable for offshoring jobs, cutting benefits, exploiting workers and rural communities, and resisting wage increases. They have become part of a “hunger industrial complex” that seems as self-perpetuating as the more famous military-industrial complex. Fisher lays out a vision that encompasses a broader definition of hunger characterized by a focus on public health, economic justice, and economic democracy. He points to the work of numerous grassroots organizations that are leading the way in these fields as models for the rest of the anti-hunger sector. It is only through approaches like these that we can hope to end hunger, not just manage it.
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Subcommittee on Nutrition and Investigations |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 690 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Food relief |
ISBN | : |
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Abstracts: These hearings discuss hunger in the United States and related nutritional issues. Topics include: USDA food assistance programs; USDA commodity distribution programs; and the needs of the hungry in the U.S. These proceedings present the views of many grassroots activists who work providing food to those in need.
Author | : Leslie Hossfeld |
Publisher | : Vanderbilt University Press |
Total Pages | : 435 |
Release | : 2021-04-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0826504132 |
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Food insecurity rates, which skyrocketed with the Great Recession, have yet to fall to pre-recession levels. Food pantries are stretched thin, and states are imposing new restrictions on programs like SNAP that are preventing people from getting crucial government assistance. At the same time, we see an increase in obesity that results from lack of access to healthy foods. The poor face a daily choice between paying bills and paying for food.
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Hunger |
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Considers S. Res. 281, to establish the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, to study hunger and related health problems in the U.S.