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 Over 33 million Americans, including over 13 million children, live in households that experience hunger or are at the risk of hunger.
(Source: ERS Food and Nutrition Research
Report No. FANRR-29, United States Department of Agriculture October 2002)
If all 33 million Americans faced with food insecurity stood in line at a food pantry in New York City, the line would stretch to Los Angeles and
back TWICE! (Source: Share Our Strength)
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There are more children in poverty today than there were two decades ago.
(Source:
Estimates in this fact sheet were prepared by Hsien-Hen Lu of NCCP based on the U.S. Census Bureau, March Current Population Surveys, 1976-2002) |
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HOW CAN YOU HELP?
One simple answer to that question is AMERICA’S FOOD
PARTNERSHIP'S: THE AFP DIFFERENCE. Person by person, together we can provide
food to the thousands of social service organizations already in place, serving those in need of food assistance in any town or city throughout the United States. We can all Make A Difference and do our
part in helping those in need.
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Almost 25 million Americans sought emergency food assistance from food banks, church pantries, soup kitchens, and shelters, just within the agencies we serve; and nearly 40% of those served include someone who is working.
(Source: America’s Second Harvest)
There are thousands of shelters for abused women, the homeless and abandoned, the sick and the elderly throughout the United States, in every small and large town and
city, all in need of food assistance. (Source: National Coalition Against Domestic Violence; and America’s Second Harvest)
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