A team at Purdue University’s Center for Food Demand Analysis and Sustainability found in their most recent food consumption survey that “about 1-in-3 Americans born from 1996-2004, have had trouble affording enough food in 2022,” and had to turn to free groceries from a pantry, church or other charity in order to have enough to eat, the team reported on The Conversation news outlet on Aug. 2 (reprinted in {Consortium News on Aug. 10). “That’s over twice the rate of the average American.”
Not surprisingly, they found that adult members of “Generation Z” who make less than the federal poverty line are over three times as likely as other Gen Z households to be “food insecure,” and the rate of food insecurity among Black and Hispanic households of this generation is almost double that of White and Asian households.
