Informative Links
http://www.secondharvest.org/learn_about_hunger/child_hunger/index.html
Statistics on child food insecurity are from Feeding America (formerly America's Second Harvest). The results are estimates from a study done from 2003-2005 and organized by state. The entire report including methods and definitions of what child food insecurity is can be found here:
http://www.secondharvest.org/learn_about_hunger/methodology.pdf
http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/ERR49/ERR49.pdf
A link to the 2006 Household Food Security in the United States report by the USDA.
http://www.frac.org
A study published in the Journal of Nutrition in 2005 by researchers from Cornell University and the University of South Carolina reports strong links between food insecurity and negative developmental consequences in young school-age children (kindergarten to third grade).
http://jn.nutrition.org/cgi/content/full/129/2/521S
A study by Cornell University explores how food insecurity and hunger relate to health and nutrition outcomes in food-rich countries such as the United States. It focuses on two subgroups of the population: women of childbearing age and school-age children.
