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South Carolina
Statistics on children, youth and families in South Carolina from the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Children's Trust of South Carolina
Child food insecurity
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Definition and Source
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Definition
Food security is defined as having access at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life. USDA reported that a lack of food security, or food insecurity, affected 10.5 percent of all U.S. households in 2020, unchanged from 2019. Households with children, however, experienced statistically significant increases in food insecurity during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, even as overall food insecurity stayed the same. In 2020, 85.2 percent of households with children were food secure, while 14.8 percent were food-insecure, up from 13.6 percent in 2019.
Data Source
https://www.feedingamerica.org/research/map-the-meal-gap/how-we-got-the-map-data
Last Updated
March 2024