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More than 450 families shop each week via Client Choice at the Franklin Food Bank. The Client Choice Market is open 2 to 7 p.m. Mondays and Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesdays and Wednesdays and ...
In 2021, the GDP grew by 5.8%, driven by a strong recovery from the pandemic downturn. In 2022, the GDP growth rate was 1.9%, and in 2023 it continued at a rate of 2.5%.
While the U.S. is, on the whole, a wealthy country, currently one in eight Americans is food insecure.
Food insecurity is defined at a household level, of not having adequate food for any household member due to finances. The step beyond this is very low food security, which is having six (for families without children) to eight (for families with children) or more food insecure conditions in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food Security Supplement Survey.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, food insecurity intensified in many places. In the second quarter of 2020, there were multiple warnings of famine later in the year. [3] [4] In an early report, the Nongovernmental Organization (NGO) Oxfam-International talks about "economic devastation" [5] while the lead-author of the UNU-WIDER report compared COVID-19 to a "poverty tsunami". [6]
Similarly, household food security is considered to exist when all the members of a family, at all times, have access to enough food for an active, healthy life. [1] Individuals who are food-secure do not live in hunger or fear of starvation. [2] Food security includes resilience to future disruptions of food supply.
Food is coming from further away, traveling larger distances, and having more processing steps, in turn. “Even the biggest of companies are having problems that they cannot control,” Detwiler ...
North America was already experiencing significant shortfalls and supply chain issues connected to the 2020–2023 North American drought and the 2021–2023 global supply chain crisis. [5] The supply chain crisis was also one factor in infant formula shortages in the US.