Forty Percent of Black and Hispanic Parents of School-Age Children Are Food Insecure

As the recession persists and the White House and Congress have failed to agree on additional economic relief, families with school-age children also face uncertainty around in-person school attendance and access to school meals. In this brief, we use data from the most recent wave of the Coronavirus Tracking Survey, a nationally representative survey of nonelderly adults conducted September 11–28, 2020, to examine food insecurity among families with school-age children six months into the pandemic. #covid-19 #foodsecurity