{"id":211,"date":"2026-05-29T16:10:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T16:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=211"},"modified":"2026-05-29T16:10:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T16:10:38","slug":"hunger-in-us-under-trump-reaches-levels-not-seen-since-peak-of-covid-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=211","title":{"rendered":"Hunger in US Under Trump Reaches Levels Not Seen Since Peak of COVID Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- begin partial\/series-card --><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><i><span>Truthout is an indispensable resource for activists, movement leaders and workers everywhere. Please make this work possible with a <\/span><\/i><i><span>quick donation<\/span><\/i><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=209\">Oregon Employers With Most SNAP Recipients Included Safeway, Walmart, and Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>An analysis released this week by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York shows that food insecurity in the US has reached levels not seen since the height of the coronavirus pandemic, underscoring the devastating impact of Republican cuts to federal nutrition assistance and President Donald Trump\u2019s inflationary economic and foreign policy decisions.<\/p>\n<p>In a blog post, New York Fed researchers detailed their findings of \u201ca remarkable increase in food insecurity, particularly among lower-educated and lower-income households and households with young children,\u201d as well as \u201ca contemporaneous increase in pessimism among the same groups, along with a sharp decline in job-finding expectations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The researchers cited new data showing increases in the percentage of Americans who reported receiving food donations and skipping meals in recent months, as prices for basic necessities rose. Cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) that Trump and congressional Republicans enacted last summer are also having an impact, stripping food aid from hundreds of thousands of low-income children and millions of people overall.<\/p>\n<p>Among those who reported skipping meals and relying on food banks, \u201cthere is a lower, and more rapidly declining, net share of respondents expecting to be better versus worse off financially a year from now,\u201d despite some topline figures indicating a relatively strong economy (such as a low unemployment rate), the researchers observed.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=207\">Ex-Nuclear Negotiator Criticizes Trump\u2019s Push for Abraham Accords in Iran Deal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis means that an increase in the incidence of food insecurity is associated with a deterioration in consumer sentiment,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Fed\u2019s analysis came amid a flurry of new data showing that rising inflation \u2014 now at a three-year high \u2014 is eroding Americans\u2019 paychecks and causing personal savings rates to plummet as households are forced to spend more on gas, food, and other basics.<\/p>\n<p>Following the release of new federal data on Thursday, the nonprofit research group Equitable Growth pointed to \u201can important milestone: Household incomes are now down year-over-year. American households had more money to spend in April of 2025.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough income is down for all households this month, it is falling faster for the bottom 50% households, who have seen their income fall by 1.6% compared to April of last year,\u201d noted Equitable Growth visiting fellow Austin Clemens. \u201cThis group\u2019s income has fallen in five of the last six months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=205\">DHS Secretary Claims Plans Underway to Stop International Flights from Sanctuary Cities<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new analysis by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York reveals the fallout from cuts to federal food aid programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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