Going hungry in the USA from MetaFilter

 by wilful http://bit.ly/2FvNku

Almost 15 percent of US households are "food insecure". Last year, nearly 17 million children, or 22.5 per cent, lived in households in which food at times was scarce - 4 million children more than the year before. And the number of youngsters who sometimes went hungry rose from nearly 700,000 to almost 1.1 million.
"This is unthinkable. It's like we are living in a Third World country,'' said Vicki Escarra, president of Feeding America, the largest organisation representing food banks and other emergency food sources.

James Weill, president of the Washington-based Food Research and Action Centre, said: ''It's frankly just deeply upsetting.''