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The Food Research & Action Center and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities conducted a rapid assessment project to document the development and implementation of P-EBT benefits covering the spring of 2020.

These interactive maps provide state-by-state data on food hardship, and are a companion to How Hungry Is America? FRAC’s National, State, and Local Index of Food Hardship report.

This analysis of the Gallup data by the Food Research & Action Center (FRAC) looks at the rates at which Americans answered “yes” to the question “Have there been times in the past 12 months when you did not have enough money to buy food that you or your family needed?” nationally, regionally, at the state level, and at the local level (by Metropolitan Statistical Area, or MSA) in 2016 and 2017.

An infographic, based on FRAC’s analysis of Gallup-Healthways survey data (conducted in 2014 and 2015), with text stating “1 in 5 households with children struggles to afford enough food for their families.”

An infographic, based on FRAC’s analysis of Gallup-Healthways survey data (conducted in 2014 and 2015), with text stating, “21 states and the District of Columbia had 20% or more households with children struggling against food hardship.”

An infographic, based on FRAC’s analysis of Gallup-Healthways survey data (conducted in 2014 and 2015), with text stating, “11 of 15 states with the worst food hardship rates were in the South.”

An infographic, based on FRAC’s analysis of Gallup-Healthways survey data (conducted in 2014 and 2015), with text stating, “19.2% of households with children struggled against food hardship in 2015.”

This FRAC report analyzes answers to the question, “Have there been times in the past 12 months when you did not have enough money to buy food that you or your family needed?” The question was part of a survey conducted by Gallup in 2015 as part of the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, in which 177,281 households participated.

The Food Research & Action Center (FRAC) has been issuing reports for several years that analyze the answers to a survey question asked by Gallup about food hardship, which is the inability of American households to afford adequate food. In this report, FRAC looks at the data separately for households with children and households without children.