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Trump scraps the nation’s most comprehensive food insecurity report − making it harder to know how many Americans struggle to get enough food

Written by Tracy Roof, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Richmond

Nearly 1 in 7 Americans had trouble consistently getting enough to eat in 2023.Patrick Strattner/fStop via Getty Images

The Trump administration announced on Sept. 20, 2025, that it plans to stop releasing food insecurity data. The federal government has tracked and analyzed this data for the past three decades, but it plans to stop after...

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