Nearly 20 million American households sometimes or often didn’t have enough food to eat from Sept. 29 to Oct.11. Those older than 65 are hit hardest and were the only group that experienced higher rates of insecurity this October compared to last year.
To prepare for Thanksgiving, millions of Americans flock to grocery stores or watch YouTube GOOG, -0.03% GOOGL, +0.23% videos on the art of turkey carving.
Yet nearly 20 million American households sometimes or often didn’t have enough food to eat from Sept. 29 to Oct.11, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Household Pulse survey conducted then. The drop in household food insecurity rates from a year ago has a lot to do with increased federal spending on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits and stimulus aid such as direct relief checks and enhanced unemployment benefits, according to a report published Wednesday by Hunger Free America, a nonprofit.
That same month the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s historic SNAP benefit increase, which the agency announced in August, took effect. Some 42 million Americans who receive SNAP benefits started receiving what works out to be a $157 increase in food benefits on average each month, a $36 monthly increase from before the pandemic, according to the USDA.
Grocery prices are up 5.4% compared to last year — one of the biggest increases in the past two decades, according to the Consumer Price Index. Meat, chicken, dairy, eggs, sugar and coffee are among the products that have seen especially large price gains in the past year.“Grocery prices are up 5.
As of July 2021, the most recent month Meals on Wheels has program data for, a majority of these programs were still serving an average of 57% more meals weekly than they were before the pandemic began.
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