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Hunger and Poverty Facts about the District of Columbia
• 97,000 of residents live in households with
income below the federal poverty level - 31,000
are children.
• 1 out of 10 households experience food insecurity.
• Roughly 175,000 residents depend on emergency
food from food banks, pantries, and soup kitchens.
• 1 out of 3 children live on the edge of hunger.
Food insecurity occurs whenever the availability of nutritionally adequate and safe food, or the ability to acquire such food, is limited or uncertain. Hunger is the more serious situation where one or more family members suffer the uneasy or painful sensation caused by a recurrent or involuntary lack of food. Over time, hunger may result in malnutrition. |
