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Current News on Hunger and Food

Videos

The RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce): an  organization committed to finding innovative practical solutions to today’s social challenges created a video that highlights the issues of food production and food insecurity in our country.

Articles

Hungry Heroes: 25 Percent of Military Families Seek Food Aid

Websites

World Food Programme

FactsUpFront.org

foodtank

Feeding America

Statistics

  • Click here for  food insecurity information in the Union and Northumberland county areas.

  • An estimated 1 out of every 8 American relies on their local food pantry

  • In 2012, 49.0 million Americans lived in food insecure households, 33.1 million adults and 15.9 million children and 17.6 million households were food insecure.  For more information about food insecurity in the United States, please visit.

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