Hunger and Malnutrition in the US
By Christine Mason, CEI Executive Director Image from treehugger.com Did you know that: 20% of the population in Mississippi is “food insecure”? – the highest in the United States, followed by Arkansas (19%), Louisiana (18%), Alabama (19%), and Kentucky (17%) The poverty rate for children is 20% 19.4 million people in the US live in extreme poverty, which means that the annual income of a family of four, for example is $10,000 or less 1% of the children in the US “suffer from