USDA 2022 household food security report finds increasing struggle to afford healthy foods

30 Oct 2023 — While the vast majority of US households, 87.2%, remains food secure, a newly released report by the USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) concludes that 12.8% — 17 million US households — were food insecure in 2022, of which 5.1% or 5.1 million, had very low food security.