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May 2007
Fewer households had difficulty
putting enough food on the table in 2005
Mark
Nord
The prevalence of food insecurity—the
lack of consistent access to adequate food for active,
healthy living—in U.S. households declined
in the late 1990s, then increased following the
recession in 2001. Food insecurity continued to
increase through 2004, in spite of renewed economic
growth, then declined by about one percentage point
to 11.0 percent in 2005. The prevalence of food
insecurity for households with children was about
5 percentage points higher than the national average,
and followed a similar pattern over the past decade.
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