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Exclusive | Trump Administration Cancels Annual Hunger Survey The government has been measuring food insecurity since the mid-1990s, but now says the report has become “overly politicized.”

Food insecurity rates are a critical poverty indicator. For the first time in 30 years, we will not have national and state-level data on how many households had difficulty acquiring enough food to meet their household needs.

Of potential interest given the current funding environment.

Between 638 and 720 million people faced hunger in 2024.

Explore the interactive @fao.org World Hunger Map to browse the latest global estimates of hunger and food insecurity in the world.

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And a happy public service recognition week to you too.

New HHS poverty guidelines mean that even for a single adult working FT year-round, the federal minimum wage is officially a poverty wage: aspe.hhs.gov/topics/pover...

Sigh, of course.

We need similar studies for the dollar store surge observed over the last decade. I fear the outcomes will be analogous…

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Most nutrition for the money?

Grains, legumes, and tubers.

True in 1894, still true today.

Source:

Honestly very impressed with this data viz.

Chart 3 of an 1894 U.S. Department of Agriculture publication titled Pecuniary Economy of Food. Depicts amounts of nutrients obtained in different foods for 10 cents.

Food Economics, 1894 Edition.
Beans have always been efficient.

Full report and data here:

Another key finding: of those 770,000 experiencing homelessness, nearly 150,000 were children, an increase of 33 percent over 2023.

How Flight Attendants Grounded Trump’s Shutdown Sara Nelson, the flight attendants union leader whose strike threat helped end the government shutdown, speaks to Jacobin. “There are no labor rights without the right to strike.”

Also the Flight Attendants Union threatened a general strike citing serious safety concerns. Solidarity among workers.

Dollar Stores and Food Access for Rural Households in the United States, 2008‒2020 | AJPH | Vol. 113 Issue 3 Dollar stores have rapidly expanded their food offerings in recent years. These foods tend to be higher in calories and lower in nutrients, raising public health concerns, especially in rural and low-...

Also glad to see dollar stores research by folks like Wenhui Feng, @elinatpage.bsky.social, @seanbcash.bsky.social.

For many, dollar stores are important, if under-explored parts of food access.

(here's a link to their AJPH paper cited in the article: ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10....)

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the VERY least

And a reminder. These guidelines are the cornerstone for federal food and nutrition programs, including SNAP and school meals.

More beans and less red meat: Nutrition experts weigh in on US dietary guidelines Americans should eat more beans, peas and lentils and cut back on red and processed meats and starchy vegetables.

The release of the 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans next year has the potential to be very interesting.

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tis the season

A farm worker'w hand holding up strawberries just harvested

Much of the food you eat this holiday season comes to your table from the hard-working hands of farm workers who harvest our food. #WeFeedYou

These are the sort of life-affirming texts I need. Please and thank you.

NEW DATA: Childcare costs remain an almost prohibitive expense We updated our National Database of Childcare Prices with data from 2019-2022 and found that U.S. families spend between 8.9% and 16.0% of their median income on full-day care for just one child.

Cost of child care for one child can be more than rent in some US counties blog.dol.gov/2024/11/19/n...

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National-level and state-level prevalence of overweight and obesity among children, adolescents, and adults in the USA, 1990–2021, and forecasts up to 2050 Existing policies have failed to address overweight and obesity. Without major reform, the forecasted trends will be devastating at the individual and population level, and the associated disease burd...

New national- and state-level overweight and obesity prevalences and forecasts published in the Lancet.

By 2050, in most states, a projected two in three adults (≥25 years) will have obesity.

Yep.

Solidarity!