Washington stopped measuring hunger. Missouri is seeing more of it.

By: Kristen Wild

Outlets: Missouri Independent

Published: October 17, 2026

Words: 603

Last Updated: 13 hours, 16 minutes ago

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For more than three decades, the federal government released an annual comprehensive report on the state of hunger in America. But that ended in 2025 when the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced it would no longer produce Household Food Security reports.

While the report has disappeared, hunger clearly hasn’t. In fact, it appears to be getting dramatically worse as people lose food assistance and face mounting economic strains.

At Operation Food Search, which works with …

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