Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Errol Schweizer has the essential take on the grocery industry. SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, is at the ...

The share of Americans reporting trouble affording food is rising this year amid persistently high grocery costs, according to a recent report from Purdue University. Roughly 14% of U.S. households ...

When the government shutdown left 42 million people without food assistance last week, nonprofits stepped in to help, as they always do. Across the country, community foundations, congregations, and ...

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 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 ...

Dear EarthTalk: How do we reduce food insecurity without increasing food waste? – D.A., via email Answer: Food insecurity, the lacking of access to adequate food, is a prevalent global issue.

In the year before the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, 10.5 percent of US households, or roughly 35 million Americans, were food insecure. This number has jumped significantly since March 2020, with some ...