USDA cancels survey tracking how many Americans struggle to get enough food

signalmankenneth said:
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) under the administration of President Trump announced on Saturday that it will end a longstanding annual food insecurity survey, calling it "redundant, costly, politicized, and extraneous.":whoa:

The Household Food Security Report provides yearly data on the lack of access to adequate nutrition for low-income Americans, and helps shape policy on how to combat food insecurity and hunger.

The USDA's announcement comes after Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law this summer, which expands the work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. This, in effect, will leave an estimated 2.4 million Americans without food aid.

"The national food insecurity survey is a critical, reliable data source that shows how many families in America struggle to put food on the table," Crystal FitzSimons, president of the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) told NPR. FRAC is an anti-hunger organization that advocates for food security in the U.S.

FitzSimons said that without the annual report, advocates and policymakers won't have a clear lens on the scale of hunger in America, and how to prevent it.

"Without that data, we are flying blind, and we don't know the impact," FitzSimons said.

According to the USDA, 47.4 million people lived in food insecure households in 2023. This means that at certain times, "these households were uncertain of having or unable to acquire enough food to meet the needs of all their members." Among those, nearly 14 million were children.

In the announcement, the Agriculture Department stated, "trends in the prevalence of food insecurity have remained virtually unchanged."

Experts are saying that's not true.

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/22/nx-s1-5549115/usda-food-insecurity-survey-hunger


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Every single southern state GOP politician that Trump endorsed, all won their primaries....one more time, Every single southern state GOP politician that Trump endorsed, all won their primaries.... these same piss poor fuckin states that rely not only on food stamps, but government subsidies in housing and healthcare. Why on God's green earth should anybody give a fuck about their plight now? If these brain dead bastards don't want to vote, want to vote out rational GOP members and replace them with TRUMP CANDIDATES WHO HAVE VOWED TO CONTINUE TRUMPS MADNESS...WHY IN THE FUCK SHOULD ANYBODY CARE ABOUT THESE PEOPLE???? I I WILL WAIT!!
 
tigerred59 said:
Every single southern state GOP politician that Trump endorsed, all won their primaries....one more time, Every single southern state GOP politician that Trump endorsed, all won their primaries.... these same piss poor fuckin states that rely not only on food stamps, but government subsidies in housing and healthcare. Why on God's green earth should anybody give a fuck about their plight now? If these brain dead bastards don't want to vote, want to vote out rational GOP members and replace them with TRUMP CANDIDATES WHO HAVE VOWED TO CONTINUE TRUMPS MADNESS...WHY IN THE FUCK SHOULD ANYBODY CARE ABOUT THESE PEOPLE???? I I WILL WAIT!!
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California is not considered a 'southern' state. It has nothing to do with the States where the politicians that Trump endorsed won their primaries.
 
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