消息來源 ：路透社 美國農業部
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/hunger-us-continued-multi-year-rise-2023-says-f
arm-agency-report-2024-09-04/
原始資料 美國農業部
https://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/pub-details/?pubid=109895
完整報告 PDF
https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/publications/109896/err-337.pdf?v=6565.8
Hunger in US continued multi-year rise in 2023, government report says
美國飢餓人數 持續多年上升
By Leah Douglas
September 5, 20243:30 AM GMT+8Updated 16 days ago
Sept 4 (Reuters) - Hunger reached its highest point in the United States in near
ly a decade last year, with 18 million households, or 13.5%, struggling at some
point to secure enough food, a Department of Agriculture report released on Wedn
esday said.
Hunger has been on the rise in the country since 2021, after years of decline. U
.S. Census Bureau data last year showed a rise in food insecurity after the end
of programs that expanded food aid during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The report did not provide an explanation for the increase.
Anti-hunger group Feeding America found in May that hungry people in the United
States were facing a $33.1 billion shortfall in money to meet their food needs,
in part due to higher food prices.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in a statement that Congress was to blame
for failing to pass an expanded child tax credit, opens new tab this year and e
xpanding work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SN
AP), the nation's largest food aid program, last year.
"For anyone to go hungry in America is unacceptable," he said.
Expanding federal food aid and the child tax credit would help address the probl
em, anti-hunger groups have said.
"Reducing and eliminating hunger in America will not happen overnight, but the p
olicies necessary to do so are not a mystery," Eric Mitchell, president of the A
lliance to End Hunger, said in a statement.
One million more households were food insecure in 2023 than in 2022, the USDA re
port said.
About 6.8 million of the 18 million households suffering food insecurity experie
nced very low food security, meaning the diets of one or more household members
were disrupted during the year because they could not afford to buy enough food.
1800萬個家庭 約近5000萬人口（美國人口 3.4億人 約13.5%）
680萬個家庭 處於非常低的食物安全
主因就是沒錢
都拿玉米去做乙醇燃料了 也不給口飯吃 Why?