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
May 13, 2021
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Dov Waxman, professor of Israel studies at UCLA and author of several books about the conflict, said there were early and clear signs that Israelis and Palestinians were headed to calamity. “What [Biden] wanted to do was signal this was not a priority and move slowly and cautiously while dealing with a complicated domestic agenda,” Waxman said. “The problem is the Middle East always intrudes into the agenda.” (Waxman was also quoted by the Los Angeles Daily News.)