Tagged: Operation Food Search

St. Louis on the Air
5:42 pm
Thu February 28, 2013

Food Insecurity Prevalent In St. Louis, Throughout The Country

Credit (via Flickr/USACEpublicaffairs)
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers hosts a food drive

The number of people who do not have enough food in the United States is a serious problem.

Information from the United States Department of Agriculture in 2011 shows:

  • 50.1 million people in the United States live in food insecure households
  • 33.5 million are adults
  • 16.7 million are children
  • 14.9% of all U.S. households are food insecure

Host Don Marsh talked with guests about the food crisis nationally as well as locally.

His guests were:

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