Food insecurity leads to higher health care costs
Fifty million Americans, including 15 million children, live in food-insecure households, meaning that from time to time they lack the resources to buy enough food. The “absence of food security in the U.S. carries enormous healthcare costs, more than $160 billion in 2014,” says In These Times, pointing to the 2016 Hunger Report from Bread… » Read More
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