Rising Insecurity: COVID has increased the difficulty for many households to obtain healthy food
By Sheril Kirshenbaum, Associate Research Scientist, Michigan State University; and Douglas Buhler, Director of AgBioResearch and Assistant Vice President of Research and Innovation, Michigan State University COVID-19 has made food access more challenging for many communities. In Michigan State University’s Fall 2021 Food Literacy and Engagement Poll, 31% of the people we talked to said the pandemic had affected their household’s ability to obtain food. This included 28% of households earning less than $25,000, and 38% of those earning more than $75,000 annually. We surveyed 2,002 representative Americans between August 27 and September 1, 2021, to explore how the...
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