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Food Pantries Provide Emergency Food to More Than One-Quarter of Food-Insecure Households

Coleman-Jensen, Alisha
2018
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In 2017, 26 percent of U.S. households that were food insecure used a food pantry, down from 28.2 percent in 2015 but higher than the annual rates during 2001-12.

Title
Food Pantries Provide Emergency Food to More Than One-Quarter of Food-Insecure Households
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Author(s)
Coleman-Jensen, Alisha
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Issue Date
11/5/2018
Publication Type
Journal Article
Digital Object Identifier
https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.302665
Record Identifier
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/302665
Language
English
Published in
Amber Waves: The Economics of Food, Farming, Natural Resources, and Rural America
Volume
November 2018
Issue
10
Record Appears in
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) > Economic Research Service > Amber Waves:The Economics of Food, Farming, Natural Resources, and Rural America

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