The United States, including New England, have essentially made no progress in reducing food insecurity rates over the past 20 years. This is because food and nutrition insecurity are structural problems with roots in our nation’s long history of racism, wage stagnation, and the highest rate of people in poverty of any other advanced democracy in the world. The evidence shows a spike in food insecurity as a result of the Great Recession, and another spike after federal support programs put in place to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic were sunsetted.
Food Insecurity in the United States, 2001-2022
Food Insecurity inFood Insecurity in the U.S. by Race/Ethnicity, 2001-2022 the United States, 2001-2022
Food Insecurity in New England, 2001-2022
Note About Connecticut Maps: Although Connecticut has not had county governments since 1960, county boundaries have historically been used to depict data. For example, all USDA Census of Agriculture data for Connecticut is collected at a county-level. In 2022, the U.S. Census Bureau shifted to using Connecticut's nine planning regions as county equivalent geographic units for data collection. This has presented a challenge for depicting data for Connecticut's planning regions in Tableau. This mapping challenge has not been resolved yet, but when a solution is available, we will update Connecticut maps.
