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About one-third of adult residents of Puerto Rico experience food insecurity.
Puerto Rico’s food assistance program, the Nutrition Assistance Program (NAP, or PAN for its Spanish acronym) helps residents of Puerto Rico afford a basic diet. This program is especially important given high levels of poverty and hardship: over two-fifths of all residents of Puerto Rico (43 percent) and
over half of children in Puerto Rico (57 percent) lived in poverty in 2018, according to the most recent Census Bureau data.
[1] About one-third of adult residents of Puerto Rico experience food insecurity, which is a lack of consistent access to adequate food, a recent study found. People with low incomes (under $25,000 annually) were more than three times as likely to experience food insecurity than households with higher incomes.
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16 States Where Poverty Is Worse Than You Might Think
As the United States endures its 10th month of the health and economic crises resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, many Americans continue to face serious economic hardship. While some managed to keep above the poverty threshold, many were pushed into poverty or deeper poverty.
Funds from the CARES Act, which Congress passed in late March to provide some economic relief during the pandemic, appear to be drying up, and the nationwide economic recovery has been slowing considerably in recent months. Approximately 21.9 million jobs were lost between February and April. While a little over half of that loss 12.3 million jobs were recovered over the following seven months, the 245,000 jobs employers added in November was the lowest job gain since the March-April crash.
Prior to COVID-19, Portsmouth’s Gather food pantry was serving roughly 100,000 pounds of food to 2,500-3,000 people a month. Since the pandemic began and more people are finding themselves food insecure, Gather has upped its monthly food distribution to 200,000 pounds to about 6,500-7,000 people, according to Associate Executive Director Seneca Bernard.
Through strong partnerships with the New Hampshire Food Bank and other meal distribution organizations, Bernard said he and colleagues statewide have become more flexible in their work to meet increasing demand.
“So while there’s been a lot of challenges, some of the positives that have come out of it have certainly benefited the underlying support system that we all have,” he said.