What is Food Insecurity?
According to a study done by the United States Department of Agriculture in 2020, how many people lived in food insecure households?
What is 38 million, including 12 million children?
In a study conducted by Fernando Lejarza, UT Austin Chemical Engineer, how much food in the US is wasted and how much money does that equate to annually?
What is 1/3 of all food and about $1 trillion annually
In a study conducted by Fernando Lejarza, who works as a chemical engineer at UT Austin, what is the easiest way to limit the most waste in the USA?
What is a climate controlled supply chain
True or false, SNAP benefits have been proven to alleviate food insecurity problems for a lot of Americans who partake in this program?
What is true
According to a fact sheet published by the USDA in 2024, How much money was funneled toward food assistance programs in the 2023 fiscal year?
What is over 3 billion
In a study conducted by the urban Institute in 2020, in what demographic are the most food insecure households found?
What are low income households below the federal poverty level, particularly children?
In a study published in 2016 by Leslie Hossfield, NC state graduate and Dean of Health Sciences at Clemson University, an increase of funding to these government agencies would drastically increase the amount of food in the US, ultimately decreasing food insecurity?
What are the National Institute of Agriculture for Food Research and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
During the summer, children who eat free or discounted meals do not get those meals during the summer. In the previously mentioned study conducted by Leslie Hossfield in 2016, where would be the best place for federally funded meals for children to be served in the summer?
What are churches and parks
what is 18 million
In a report published by the EPA in 2024, how much money is annually awarded to grants that deal with implementation and education about food waste and how to reduce it in the United States?
What is 750 million
In the same study conducted by the Urban Institute previously mentioned, households headed by these racial minorities are most likely to be food insecure?
What are Black or Hispanic households
In the same study by Leslie Hossfield, how often can the unemployed population or those working less than 20 hours a week collect benefits to avoid food insecurity from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program?
What is 3 months every 3 years
Leslie Hossfield found in her 2016 study that this is the best way to mobilize SNAP benefits?
What are food trucks
How many people annually get fed by food banks?
What is 53 million
In a study conducted in 2021 by Lilanthi Balasuriya, Yale medical school graduate and CDC employee, what percentage below the poverty line do you need to be to usually collect SNAP benefits?
What is 185%?
In a study conducted by Union of Concerned Scientists, a non-profit charity comprised of students and scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, published in 2016, In Baltimore, MD, these were set up in disadvantaged communities receiving food assistance benefits to order groceries online and and have them delivered to a nearby library?
What are virtual supermarkets
In the same aforementioned study by Lilanthi Balasuriya in 2021, why do people who escape food insecurity slip back into it?
What is when you make enough to get out of SNAP, you move up a tax bracket
In the same study published by the Union of Concerned Scientists in 2016,In Louisville, Kentucky, there is trouble getting to grocery stores, so their solution was this?
what is pool government benefits and buy in bulk from local farmers