{"id":347648,"date":"2018-02-10T14:38:35","date_gmt":"2018-02-10T13:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-food-insecurity-may-be-twice-as-common-as-previously-estimated\/"},"modified":"2018-02-10T14:38:35","modified_gmt":"2018-02-10T13:38:35","slug":"us-food-insecurity-may-be-twice-as-common-as-previously-estimated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-food-insecurity-may-be-twice-as-common-as-previously-estimated\/","title":{"rendered":"US: Food insecurity may be twice as common as previously estimated"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>US: Food insecurity may be twice as common as previously estimated<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Mark Ferretti<br \/>\n    <br \/>10 February 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p> Lack of sufficient access to nutritious food is a much greater problem for the American working class than previously understood, according to research published in the <em>Journal of Hunger &amp; Environmental Nutrition.<\/em> In a survey of 663 households in Columbus, Ohio, researchers found that 32 percent were food insecure. This rate of food insecurity is double that of previous estimates based on county-level census data.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers considered about half of food-insecure households to be \u201cvery low food secure.\u201d People in this group are \u201cskipping meals, at risk for experiencing hunger, and probably missing work and school and suffering health problems as a result,\u201d according to Michelle Kaiser, PhD, an assistant professor of social work at Ohio State, and lead author of the study. Although the current research only examined Columbus, other metropolitan areas likely have similar disparities, she added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis study exposed the vastly different experiences of people who all live in the same city,\u201d said Dr. Kaiser. \u201cMy suspicion is that most people don\u2019t recognize that there are such discrepancies and can\u2019t imagine living where they couldn\u2019t easily go to a grocery store.\u201d Notwithstanding the obliviousness of the more comfortable layers of the population, these data provide further evidence that the country\u2019s deepening social divisions are reaching critical proportions.<\/p>\n<p>For their study, Dr. Kaiser and colleagues surveyed economically and racially diverse households to understand consumer decision-making and food access. They also audited 90 food stores for the availability of items on the US Department of Agriculture\u2019s Thrifty Food Plan and MyPlate list&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/02\/10\/food-f10.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 US: Food insecurity may be twice as common as previously estimated By Mark Ferretti 10 February 2018 Lack of sufficient access to nutritious food is a much greater problem for the American working class than previously understood, according to research published in the Journal of Hunger &amp; Environmental Nutrition. In a survey of 663 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-347648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}