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One in Five Americans Receives Food Assistance (USDA Economic Research Service, April 2009)

The USDA’s Economic Research Service has recently released an illustrated guide to research findings on nutrition assistance programs, food insecurity, food prices, food spending, global food security, healthy eating, agriculture, and more.  Some of the graphs from the report are excerpted below.


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