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The USDA ended its key annual food insecurity report amid claims of survey bias, affecting data on 47 million Americans including 1 in 5 children, critics say.
- Over the weekend, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced it will stop publishing the annual Household Food Security Reports, saying the surveys had become `redundant, costly, and politicized`.
- Following the August 1 firing of Erika McEntarfer, the USDA asserted the survey `failed to present anything more than subjective, liberal fodder`, and ended the report, citing it as `redundant, costly, and politicized`.
- The USDA Household Food Security Report found 47.4 million people in food-insecure households, including almost 14 million children with a 3.2% increase, using the Current Population Survey Food Security Supplement.
- Advocates warned the move reduces transparency and could hamper accountability for nutrition programs, with Chris Bernard, President and CEO of Hunger Free Oklahoma, saying it weakens hunger policy oversight.
- Experts warned the change will make it harder to track SNAP impacts, while removing data risks enabling cuts and denying food insecurity, hindering lawmakers’ informed policymaking.
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USDA cancels food security report that anti-hunger advocates say showed the effects of food policies
USDA is canceling a report that measured food security nationally. (Photo by Lance Cheung/USDA)The U.S. Department of Agriculture has canceled a report that hunger-fighting organizations say was “essential” data to see the results of federal and local policies aimed at ending hunger. USDA, in a news release about the decision said the reports were “redundant, costly, politicized” and did “nothing more than fear monger.” Paige Chickering, vice c…
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USDA Ends Long-Standing Food Insecurity Survey
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CRUCIAL: Hunger Free Oklahoma sounds alarm as USDA cuts food security report
Hunger Free Oklahoma is sounding the alarm about the USDA cutting its Household Food Security Report.The report itself is crucial, said Chris Bernard, CEO of Hunger Free Oklahoma. Its the gold standard of what food insecurity looks like in the nation as a whole. Chris Bernard says hunger is a real issue in our state.1 in 4 Oklahoma children are food insecure.1 in 6 Oklahoma households lack reliable access to food.The Household Food Security repo…
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