U.S. food-insecurity rate falls one point from 2011 record
The U.S. food-insecurity rate is down by 1 percentage point from its peak of 14.9 percent in 2011, the government said in an annual report. The current rate, based on a Census Bureau survey of 43,000 households during December 2014, is 14.05 percent, essentially unchanged from the previous year. “However, the cumulative decline from 14.9… » Read More
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