Food Insecurity and Hunger in the United States: An Assessment of the Measure

by National Research Council, Committee on National Statistics, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education

The United States is viewed by the world as a country with plenty of food, yet not all households in America are food secure, meaning access at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life. A proportion of the population experiences food insecurity at some time in a given year because of food deprivation and lack of access to food due to economic resource constraints. Still, food insecurity in the United States is not of the same intensity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309101328
• ISBN13: 9780309101325
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.4" x 9.0"