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Greg Dawson considers himself lucky to still have work, as a night-shift electrician installing lights in a chain of grocery stores. He lives in the house he's building in Martinsville, Ohio, with his wife, Sheila, and their five children, and they get a $300 benefit through the food stamps program. "It's embarrassing," said Mr. Dawson, 29. "I always thought it was people trying to milk the system. But we just felt like we really needed the help right now."  Photo: Stephen Crowley/The New York Times  

Greg Dawson considers himself lucky to still have work, as a night-shift electrician installing lights in a chain of grocery stores. He lives in the house he's building in Martinsville, Ohio, with his wife, Sheila, and their five children, and they get a $300 benefit through the food stamps program. "It's embarrassing," said Mr. Dawson, 29. "I always thought it was people trying to milk the system. But we just felt like we really needed the help right now."  Photo: Stephen Crowley/The New York Times

 

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This part of the Hunger Notes website enables you to learn more about hunger by reading essential information on an important aspect of world hunger and answering several questions. When you answer this quiz,  Hunger Notes will make a donation to assist hungry people--for details see below.

US hunger quiz: how many people face very low food security?

There has been a dramatic increase in hunger in the United States in the last three years, 2008, 2009 and 2010. Statistics are only available for 2008.  US statistics do not measure hunger, they measure food insecurity and security (explained below).

The Census Bureau statistics establish two grades of food insecurity.

Very low food security In these food-insecure households, normal eating patterns of one or more household members were disrupted and food intake was reduced at times during the year because they had insufficient money or other resources for food. 6.7 million US households (5.7 percent of all US households) had very low food security at some time during 2008, a 39 percent increase from 2007 (4.1 percent of US households). This was the largest increase ever recorded since nationally representative food security surveys were initiated in 1995, as well as the largest year-to-year percentage increase.

The defining characteristic of very low food security is that, at times during the year, the food intake of household members is reduced and their normal eating patterns are disrupted because the household lacks money and other resources for food.  On average, households with very low food security at some time during the year experienced it in 7 or 8 months during the year and in 1 to 7 days in each of those months. Ninety-seven  percent of those classified as having low food security reported that an adult had cut the size of meals or skipped meals because there was not enough money for food and 27 percent reported that an adult did not eat for a whole day because there was not enough money for food.  (Click here for more information on very low food security.)(USDA "Food Security," USDA 2008, p. iii).  Taken from  United States hunger facts, the first section on hunger.

1. What percentage of United States families have very low food security ?
  • 5.7 percent
  • 8.9 percent
  • 14.6 percent
  • 25.2 percent
2. Very low food security for a family means?
  • At times during the year they lack money to buy food
  • Meals are skipped, or the amount eaten is reduced
  • Both the first two answers
  • Neither of the first two answers
3. How many months a year did these families, on average, face some degree of hunger?
  • 1-2
  • 4-5
  • 7-8
  • 10-11
4. Following on to question 3, during the number of months that some family members did experience hunger, what was the range of days that at least some family members experienced hunger?
  • 1-7
  • 8-12
  • 15-22
  • 23-30

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Hunger Notes thanks its contributors who have made this possible including the fifth grade students of Harbor Heights School of Gig Harbor, Washington, a group of 7th graders in Room 213 of Josephine Carson Locke Elementary School in Chicago, Illinois, Matthew Road Baptist Church of Grand Prairie, Texas  St. John's Lutheran Church of New Washington, Ohio, two anonymous donors, Advance Memorial United Methodist Church of Flatwoods, Kentucky, Gloria Schaffer of Custer, South Dakota, Peace Lutheran Church of Gahanna, Ohio,  and Williamsburg Community Chapel of Williamsburg, Virginia.

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