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

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.