All You Can Eat? How Hungry is America in Good Times versus Recession?

February 6, 2009, 12:00pm - 1:15pm

Food is one of life's most basic necessities. However, in 2007, 36.2 million Americans, including 12.4 million children, either did not have enough food or feared that they wouldn’t have enough at some point during the year. This problem has only intensified in the subsequent two years due to spikes in food prices and a recession that has expanded the demand for food stamps and emergency food services while driving people to increasingly purchase cheaper, but less nutritious foods.

Please join the Center for American Progress for a provacative discussion of the current data on hunger and food insecurity, the recovery package and other federal legislation that can help address the problem, the impact of lower incomes on food choices and household nutrition, and ideas for how the Obama administration can reach its goal of ending child hunger by 2015.