When the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020, the world shut down due to the public health emergency — causing unemployment to rise and food insecurity to soar as a direct result. The increase in food insufficiency was just one of the many damaging impacts of the pandemic. In an attempt to curb this mounting issue, federal emergency programs — like…
households with children experienced a drastic rise in food insufficiency more so than households without children. The study found that food insecurity increased twice as much in households with children from 2021 to 2022. Last year, 1 in 8 of households with children experienced food insufficiency.
Households in middle-income groups also experienced an increase in food insufficiency. However, due to the income bracket many of these households are ineligible for emergency government programs, like reduced-price school meals.food insufficiency also impacted Black and Hispanic New Yorkers at twice the rates as white New Yorkers . However, across all races and ethnicities, food insufficiency increased most for Asian and Black New Yorkers between 2021 and 2022.
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