A UCLA team has found that in the first three months of the COVID-19 pandemic, more than three million Californians reported their households went without sufficient food.
That was an increase of 22% from the pre-pandemic rate, and the impact was felt widely across the state, especially among those already facing hunger: those experiencing household food insufficiency prior to COVID-19 were 40 times more likely to be food insufficient - defined simply as “not having enough food to eat.” Of adults who experienced household food insufficiency during COVID-19, almost 80% were food insufficient prior to the pandemic.
“Our findings show regional differences, across California, in food insufficiency risk,” said