Food
Security is when all people at all times have physical and economic
access to sufficient food to meet their dietary needs for a
productive and healthy life.
Food Insecurity is the lack of assured access at all times
to enough food for healthy, active lives.
Hunger is the mental and physical condition that comes from
not eating enough food due to insufficient economic, family
or community resources.
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Hunger exists throughout Connecticut, in our cities, suburbs
and rural communities.
• In Connecticut, 283,000 people, many of them children,
are food insecure (based on latest USDA figures).
• 85,500 people in Connecticut suffer from very low food
insecurity at some point during the year (based on latest
USDA figures)
• One out of five children, 102,000 youngsters, under
the age of twelve, are hungry, or at risk of hunger.
• Connecticut Food Bank and Foodshare, the state’s
two food banks, provide food for over 350,000 different people
annually.
• Working people make up 25% of those using emergency
feeding programs (meal site or food pantry).
• Over 207,000 people in Connecticut participate in
the Food Stamp Program (based on latest USDA figures).
• 25% of eligible children living in poverty do not
participate in the Food Stamp Program.
Last updated March 2007.
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