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Nearly 27 Million Americans Often Don’t Have Enough to Eat: Government Survey

Nearly 27 Million Americans Often Don’t Have Enough to Eat: Government Survey
People line up to receive free holiday boxes of food from the Food Bank for New York City ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday in the Harlem neighborhood of New York on Nov. 16, 2020. Brendan McDermid/Reuters
Naveen Athrappully
Naveen Athrappully
6/29/2023|Updated: 6/29/2023
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Hunger rates in the United States have risen over the past year following the end of the COVID-19 pandemic and a period of high inflation.

More than 26.5 million Americans reported they had “sometimes not enough to eat” or “often not enough to eat” in the past seven days, according to a June 28 Household Pulse Survey report from the U.S. Census Bureau conducted from June 7 to 19.
Naveen Athrappully
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Naveen Athrappully is a news reporter covering business and world events at The Epoch Times.
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