{"id":549134,"date":"2023-02-08T04:01:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T01:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/even-as-inflation-wanes-americans-face-a-looming-food-insecurity-problem\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T04:01:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T01:01:00","slug":"even-as-inflation-wanes-americans-face-a-looming-food-insecurity-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/even-as-inflation-wanes-americans-face-a-looming-food-insecurity-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"#: Even as inflation wanes, Americans face a looming food insecurity problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3bbf18dcece\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" 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class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/even-as-inflation-wanes-americans-face-a-looming-food-insecurity-problem\/#Zoe_Han\" >Zoe Han<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C_Even_as_inflation_wanes_Americans_face_a_looming_food_insecurity_problem%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;: Even as inflation wanes, Americans face a looming food insecurity problem&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2 class=\"article__subhead\" itemprop=\"alternativeHeadline\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Survey_finds_more_Americans_are_skipping_meals_eating_less_and_going_to_food_banks_to_manage_costs\"><\/span>\n  Survey finds more Americans are skipping meals, eating less, and going to food banks to manage costs<br \/>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"column column--full article__content\">\n<div 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according to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.joinpropel.com\/reports\/january-2023-pulse-survey\" class=\"icon none\">the latest monthly survey<\/a> by Provider, an <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a> for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program users by Propel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"paywall\">\n       In the past month, 29.21% of the survey\u2019s 4,184 participants said they have skipped meals. That\u2019s a 3 percentage-point increase compared to the month before. One-fifth said they rely on family and friends to sustain themselves, up 9 percentage points from December. A bit less than a third (32.41%) reported they\u2019ve eaten less to manage food costs, up 2 percentage points. Close to a quarter (23.55%) said they have visited a food bank in the past month, up from 21% a month earlier.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday night, Biden will make the economy the centerpiece of his State of the Union address. A few challenges will be on the table, including the looming concerns for economic uncertainties, the debt ceiling and the war in Ukraine. But experts said it\u2019s also a crucial time to be talking about food assistance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As the economy slowly opens up, some subsidy programs are coming to an end. While expanded child tax credits ended last summer, an expanded allotment of SNAP benefits formerly tied to the public health emergency will be ending by Feb. 28. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fns.usda.gov\/snap\/changes-2023-benefit-amounts\" class=\"icon none\">More than 15 states<\/a> have already ended the emergency allotment, including Alaska, North Dakota and Tennessee.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the past year, the rise in the cost of living reached a 40-year high, with inflation nearing 9% in June. By December, the inflation rate had fallen to an annual 6.5% from the 7.1% recorded in November. But food inflation was 10.4% higher in December compared to the previous year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The high prices put an extra squeeze on American wallets, experts said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the COVID pandemic has been shifting into a different phase, I don\u2019t think anyone accounted for the fact that we would have such high food-price inflation over the last year and a half,\u201d said Elaine Waxman, a senior fellow at the Urban Institute\u2019s Income Benefits Policy Center, a left-leaning think tank.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile a public health emergency may seem not germane anymore, the food prices challenge is still with us,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, emergency allotments allow all SNAP recipients to receive an additional $95, or up to the maximum benefit for their household size, whichever value is greater, according to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fns.usda.gov\/snap\/changes-2023-benefit-amounts\" class=\"icon none\">the Department of Agriculture website<\/a>. When the allotment comes to an end, it could mean a recipient\u2019s grocery budget will drop from $281 to $23 for a person receiving the minimum level, pre-pandemic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"cx-membership-tile\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe are deeply concerned about the impact that the end of SNAP Emergency Allotment will have on millions of families that needed this critical lifeline for the past three years,\u201d Jerome Nathaniel, City Harvest\u2019s director of policy and government relations, said in an email to MarketWatch.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Losing the cash support, combined with a year of high food prices, has pushed up the food-insecurity level nationwide, said Gina Plata-Nino, deputy director for SNAP at the Food Research &amp; Action Center, a Washington-based nonprofit focusing on food security and nutrition for low-income households.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re back to where we started at the height of the pandemic around December 2020,\u201d Plata-Nino said.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"byline article__byline\">\n<p>    <span>By<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"author mobile-scrim hasMenu\" data-scrim='{\"type\":\"author\",\"header\":\"Zoe Han\",\"subhead\":\"The Wall Street Journal\",\"list\":[{\"type\":\"link\",\"icon\":\"bio\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/topics\/journalists\/zoe-han\",\"text\":\"Biography\"},{\"type\":\"link\",\"icon\":\"twitter\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zoeyuqhan\",\"text\":\"@zoeyuqhan\"}]}' itemscope itemprop=\"author\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\">\n<h4 itemprop=\"name\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Zoe_Han\"><\/span>Zoe Han<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><ufc-follow-author-widget product=\"marketwatch\" author-id=\"267_MW\" author-name=\"Zoe Han\" signin-url=\"https:\/\/accounts.marketwatch.com\/login?target=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.marketwatch.com%2Fstory%2Feven-as-inflation-wanes-americans-face-a-looming-food-insecurity-problem-11675818095%3Frss%3D1%26siteid%3Drss\" panda-api=\"https:\/\/follow-api.marketwatch.com\"><\/ufc-follow-author-widget><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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