The Agriculture Department is forecasting that food prices will increase 3.5 to 4.5 percent in 2009, compared with an estimated 5 to 6 percent increase by the end of 2008.
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Mazon, a national non-profit dedicated to hunger relief, conducted a survey of 133 emergency food providers in 2008.
A 2008 study by Dr. Susan Parish at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill reports that families raising disabled children are likely to suffer food, housing and health care challenges even with incomes significantly above the poverty line.
Research sponsored by the Sodexho Foundation estimates that the impact of hunger in America was $90 billion in 2005.