From the Key Points: "[1] Food insufficiency rates since the start of the pandemic--that is, not having enough food to eat--have hovered around 11 percent of all US households and 14 percent for US households with children, with little fluctuation week to week [2] Assessing households' perceived changes in food insufficiency from before the pandemic to after shows only slight increases, indicating that federal economic relief efforts likely protected many households from increases in severe food hardship [3] Food insufficiency levels remained elevated for households that experienced employment disruptions and recent unemployment, especially when households did not report receiving unemployment compensation [4] For food insufficiency levels to remain stable, these findings point to a continued need for providing economic relief to households that have experienced employment disruptions "
Food Insufficiency During the Pandemic