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Household Food Security in the United States, 2009

Mark Nord
Alisha Coleman-Jensen
Margaret Andrews
Steven Carlson

Abstract

Eighty-fi ve percent of American households were food secure throughout the entire year in
2009, meaning that they had access at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life for
all household members. The remaining households (14.7 percent) were food insecure at least
some time during the year, including 5.7 percent with very low food security. In households
with very low food security, the food intake of one or more household members was reduced
and their eating patterns were disrupted at times during the year because the household lacked
money and other resources for food. Prevalence rates of food insecurity and very low food
security were essentially unchanged from 14.6 percent and 5.7 percent, respectively, in 2008,
and remained at the highest recorded levels since 1995, when the fi rst national food security
survey was conducted. The typical food-secure household spent 33 percent more on food than
the typical food-insecure household of the same size and household composition. Fifty-seven
percent of all food-insecure households participated in one or more of the three largest Federal
food and nutrition assistance programs during the month prior to the 2009 survey.

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