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BISMARCK, ND (KXNET) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture eliminated future Household Food Security Reports. USDA called the reports “redundant” and “politicized” in a press release announcing the ...

Last month, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that they will not collect food insecurity data for 2025. The timing could not be worse. Just as cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance ...

Last week President Donald Trump’s Agriculture Department canceled the government’s annual Household Food Security survey — arguing the “nonstatutory report has become overpoliticized,” and amounts to ...

Food scarcity—the unreliable access to adequate, nutritious food—affects approximately 44 million Americans, including 13 million children. While hunger’s physical consequences receive significant ...

Food insecurity — and outright hunger — are not new problems for families in Appalachia. But inflation, continued economic challenges and changes in (or elimination of) state and federal supports mean ...

Food insecurity was linked to higher risks for dementia, cognitive impairment with dementia, and cognitive impairment with no dementia (CIND), especially in adults younger than 65 years, a new US ...