New ‘alarming’ research shows nearly 1 in 5 children in US going without enough food amid coronavirus crisis – Raw Story

The economic crisis that has come in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak has left nearly a fifth of children in the U.S. without enough food, according to new research from the Hamilton Project, and one in three households in the country food insecure. “This is alarming,” researcher and report author Lauren Bauer told the New York Times Wednesday of her findings. “These are households cutting back on portion sizes, having kids skip meals. The numbers are much higher than I expected.” https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/new-alarming-research-shows-nearly-1-in-5-children-in-us-going-without-enough-food-amid-coronavirus-crisis/