{"id":11765,"date":"2020-09-09T10:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T10:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/state.nokidhungry.org\/florida\/?p=11765"},"modified":"2020-09-14T15:39:50","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T15:39:50","slug":"new-usda-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/state.nokidhungry.org\/florida\/2020\/09\/09\/new-usda-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"New USDA Numbers Underscore Hunger Pandemic in United States"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"11765\" class=\"elementor elementor-11765\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1c49543 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1c49543\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-268caf5\" data-id=\"268caf5\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c512e7f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c512e7f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;font-size: 14.6667px\">Tallahassee, FL&#8211; This morning the U.S. Department of Agriculture released its annual food security report,\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"background-color: #ffffff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ers.usda.gov\/webdocs\/publications\/99282\/err-275.pdf?v=3421.4\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;color: #1155cc\">Household Food Security in the United States in 2019<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;font-family: Arial, sans-serif;color: black\">. This data, which covers the 2019 calendar year, is a stark reminder of how quickly hunger in this <\/span><span style=\"color: black;font-family: Arial, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt\">nation has skyrocketed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The following is a statement from No Kid Hungry\u00a0Florida Director Sky Beard:<\/span><\/p><p style=\"margin: 12.0pt 0in 12.0pt .5in\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;color: black\">According to the USDA, in 2019, 5.3 million children were food insecure,\u00a0 the lowest number on record since the agency began tracking these statistics in 1998 and nearly half the number from the height of the great recession in 2008. Today, it\u2019s a much different story.<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbpp.org\/blog\/boosting-snap-benefit-increase-would-help-children-in-short-and-long-term#:~:text=That%20translates%20into%20roughly%209,couldn't%20get%20enough%20food.&amp;text=Other%20research%20suggests%20that%20food,in%20the%20pandemic's%20early%20months.\"> <span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;color: #1155cc\">According to recent estimates<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;color: black\">, anywhere from 9-17 million children are not getting enough to eat. And the impact on communities of color are much more severe.<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipr.northwestern.edu\/news\/2020\/food-insecurity-by-race-ethnicity.html\"> <span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;color: #1155cc\">Studies show Black and Hispanic families with children are hit the hardest<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;color: black\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p style=\"margin: 12.0pt 0in 12.0pt .5in\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;color: black\">We\u2019ve seen this devastating trend first hand right here in Florida since the coronavirus swept across our state, creating an economic crisis alongside a health one. As the pandemic rages on, the situation continues to become more dire for many kids as their parents struggle to make ends meet. If this trend continues, the consequences will be felt for years to come.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"margin: 12.0pt 0in 12.0pt .5in\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;color: black\">It doesn\u2019t have to be this way. There are programs like school meals, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Pandemic EBT that work together effectively and efficiently to make sure hungry kids get the nutrition they need. But without federal action, they will continue to fall far short of reaching all the families that need them.<\/span><\/p><ul><li><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;color: black\">Schools need child nutrition waivers extended through the end of the academic <\/span><span style=\"color: black;font-family: Arial, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt;text-indent: -0.25in\">year so they can plan and prepare their meal <\/span><span style=\"color: black;font-family: Arial, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt;text-indent: -0.25in\">programs and continue reaching kids in need;<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;color: black\">Pandemic EBT, which provides a benefit to replace meals kids miss while schools are closed,<br \/>only covered last school year and has expired. It must be renewed to help families this school year as well; <\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;color: black\">SNAP benefits, a critical resource that helps families purchase groceries for their kids are entirely too low and the need is too vast. Congress must increase SNAP benefits by 15% during this crisis, which works out to approximately $25 more per person a month.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p style=\"margin: 12.0pt 0in 12.0pt .5in\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;color: black\">Without action, next year\u2019s food security numbers will show many, many more families struggling with hunger. We cannot let this crisis continue to erode more than a decade worth of progress in the fight against hunger in this nation. To put our nation back on the path toward ending childhood hunger, Congress and the administration must work together and act now.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tallahassee, FL&#8211; This morning the U.S. Department of Agriculture released its annual food security report,\u00a0Household Food Security in the United States in 2019. 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