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Trump Administration Cancels Annual Hunger Survey
The government has been measuring food insecurity since the mid-1990s, but now says the report has become ‘overly politicized’The Trump administration is canceling an annual government effort to gather data on how many Americans struggle to get enough food.
The data, which is collected each December and analyzed by the U.S. Agriculture Department, measures food insecurity across states and demographic groups.
The data has been collected every year since the mid-1990s, and is widely used by federal, state and local policymakers to make funding decisions for food-assistance programs, and to evaluate how well those programs work.
The decision to discontinue the survey for 2025 was announced in meetings with USDA employees this past week by an administrator for the Economic Research Service, an arm of the Agriculture Department, according to people present at the meetings.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/trump-administration-cancels-annual-hunger-survey-ca3d3793?st=LAcqPC&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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