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Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

The #Agriculture Dept report, Household #FoodSecurity in the #UnitedStates, quantifies the share of households considered “#FoodInsecure” & “very low food secure,” a subset with a more severe designation of need that applied to 5.1% of households in 2023. It analyzes those categories by #state, #race & #ethnicity. Rates are much higher among #Black & #Latino households than among #white households.

#PublicHealth #Health #hunger #law #Trump #SocialCleansing #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy

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@Nonilex@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

The #Agriculture Department said in a statement that the report had become “overly politicized, & upon subsequent review, is unnecessary to carry out the work of the department.”🤯

The department will issue a final report next month covering 2024, based on a survey from last year, but will cease fielding future surveys, according to the statement.

#PublicHealth #hunger #FoodInsecurity #law #Trump #SocialCleansing #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol

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@Nonilex@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

In a sharp break with precedent, #Trump has aggressively contested sources of government #data that he thinks casts his policies in a negative light. Last month, after a weak #jobs report, he fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor #Statistics, claiming with no evidence that the data was “rigged.”

#PublicHealth #Health #hunger #FoodInsecurity #law #SocialCleansing #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol

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@Nonilex@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

The #Agriculture Dept report, Household #FoodSecurity in the #UnitedStates, quantifies the share of households considered “#FoodInsecure” & “very low food secure,” a subset with a more severe designation of need that applied to 5.1% of households in 2023. It analyzes those categories by #state, #race & #ethnicity. Rates are much higher among #Black & #Latino households than among #white households.

#PublicHealth #Health #hunger #law #Trump #SocialCleansing #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy

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@Nonilex@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

The report also includes… #data on #children & the #elderly.

The #Agriculture Dept’s statement attacked the #FoodInsecurity report as “rife with inaccuracies, wrong metrics, zero accountability, & a massive drive for bigger & larger” government programs.

Elaine Waxman, an expert on methods of measuring food insecurity at the Urban Institute, a Washington research group, said in an interview that “none of that [statement] is accurate.”

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@Nonilex@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

She added: “It is highly respected. It has well-validated questions. In no way does that reflect the view of anybody who works with the #data. That is completely a pretext for eliminating data that can point out problems.”

The report was especially useful during the #coronavirus #pandemic, Waxman said, when it found that #FoodInsecurity stayed flat in 2020 despite a huge loss of jobs. Researchers credited the outpouring of government #aid….

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