@article{Nord:58616,
      recid = {58616},
      author = {Nord, Mark},
      title = {Food Insecurity in Households with Children:  Prevalence,  Severity, and Household Characteristics},
      address = {2009-09},
      number = {1476-2016-120939},
      series = {Economic Information Bulletin},
      pages = {43},
      year = {2009},
      abstract = {Eighty-four percent of U.S. households with children were  food secure throughout 2007,
meaning that they had  consistent access to adequate food for active, healthy  lives for all household members. Nearly 16 percent of  households with children were food insecure
sometime during  the year, including 8.3 percent in which children were food  insecure and 0.8 percent in which one or more children  experienced very low food security—the most severe  food-insecure condition measured by the U.S. Department of   Agriculture. Numerous studies suggest that children in  food-insecure households have higher risks of health and  development
problems than children in otherwise similar  food-secure households. This study found that
about 85  percent of households with food-insecure children had a  working adult, including 70 percent with a full-time  worker. Fewer than half of households with food-insecure  children included an adult educated past high school. Thus,  job opportunities and wage rates for less educated workers  are important factors affecting the food security of  children. In 2007, Federal food and nutrition assistance  programs provided benefits to four out of five low-income,  food-insecure households with children.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/58616},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.58616},
}