Food Pantries Provide Emergency Food to More Than One-Quarter of Food-Insecure Households

Alisha Coleman-Jensen ()

Amber Waves:The Economics of Food, Farming, Natural Resources, and Rural America, 2018, vol. November 2018, issue 10

Abstract: In 2017, 26 percent of U.S. households that were food insecure used a food pantry, down from 28.2 percent in 2015 but higher than the annual rates during 2001-12.

Keywords: Consumer/Household Economics; Financial Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; Health Economics and Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.302665

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