City Lab, February 22, 2017: Teen Hunger Is Still Overlooked
“The families in the study—predominantly African American or Hispanic, with average incomes around $1,558 a month—were surveyed several times between 1999 and 2005. Moffitt says that the findings are still relevant: ‘Over the years, we’ve seen the overall poverty rate decrease, but the problem of deep poverty has gotten worse,’ he says. And according to a 2016 report by the Urban Institute and Feeding America, an estimated 6.8 million people between the ages of 10 and 17 face food insecurity across the U.S., revealing that an epidemic of teen hunger continues.”