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Report says that many Black households go hungry

14th September 2015   ·   0 Comments

By Frederick H. Lowe
Contributing Writer

More than 25 percent genie payday loans of surveyed African-American-headed households suffered from food insecurity last year, meaning they worried that the food would run out before they got more money or could not eat all day because they did not have enough money to buy food, according to a report issued last week by the United States Department of Agriculture.

The study, titled “Household Food Security in the United States in 2014,” reported that 26.1 percent of Black households how long does it take to get the money from a personal loan suffered from either recurrent but not chronic food insecurity. Some 22.1 percent of Hispanic-headed households were food-insecure.

Work-for-foodThe USDA reported that 86.0% of households were food-secure throughout the year, meaning they had access to food at all times for an active healthy lifestyle for all family members.

But 14 percent or 17.4 million households — were food-insecure at least some time during the year, including 5.6 percent with very low varity, meaning their eating patterns were personal loans in turlock ca disrupted at times during the year because the household either lacked money or other resources for food. In 2014, they typical food insecure household spent 26% more on food than the typical food-secure household of the same size and same composition.

Households that were food insecure reported the following:

• 98% reported having worried that their food would run out before they got money to buy more;

• 97% scu personal loans reported that the food they bought just did not last and they did not have money to get more;

• 69% reported that they had been hungry but did not eat because they could not afford enough food.
These were some but not all the complaints shared.

This article originally published in the September 14, 2015 print edition of The Louisiana Weekly newspaper.

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