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CHICAGO, March 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Feeding America today released its initial food insecurity projections for 2021 that show approximately 42 million people—one in eight individuals in America—could experience food insecurity in 2021 due to the ongoing economic fallout from COVID-19. The study also reveals that many people who have been most impacted by the pandemic were food insecure or at risk before the pandemic and are facing greater hardship now.
"Before the pandemic, every community in the U.S. was home to people facing hunger, and unfortunately that continues to be true. We find that to be unacceptable," said Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, CEO of Feeding America. "In the last year, the Feeding America network of food banks distributed 6.1 billion meals to families, individuals, children and seniors in need, but if we are to achieve our vision of an America where no one is hungry, then we – the collective we – must do more."