United States, November 2025.

Food insecurity rates are a critical poverty indicator. For the first time in 30 years, we will not have national and state-level data on how many households had difficulty acquiring enough food to meet their household needs.

Of potential interest given the current funding environment.

Between 638 and 720 million people faced hunger in 2024. Explore the interactive @fao.org World Hunger Map to browse the latest global estimates of hunger and food insecurity in the world. 🗺️ www.fao.org/interactive/... #SOFI2025

And a happy public service recognition week to you too.

New HHS poverty guidelines mean that even for a single adult working FT year-round, the federal minimum wage is officially a poverty wage: aspe.hhs.gov/topics/pover...

We need similar studies for the dollar store surge observed over the last decade. I fear the outcomes will be analogous…

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Most nutrition for the money? Grains, legumes, and tubers. True in 1894, still true today.

Food Economics, 1894 Edition. Beans have always been efficient.

Another key finding: of those 770,000 experiencing homelessness, nearly 150,000 were children, an increase of 33 percent over 2023.

Also glad to see dollar stores research by folks like Wenhui Feng, @elinatpage.bsky.social, @seanbcash.bsky.social. For many, dollar stores are important, if under-explored parts of food access. (here's a link to their AJPH paper cited in the article: ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10....)

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The release of the 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans next year has the potential to be very interesting.

tis the season

Much of the food you eat this holiday season comes to your table from the hard-working hands of farm workers who harvest our food. #WeFeedYou

These are the sort of life-affirming texts I need. Please and thank you.

Cost of child care for one child can be more than rent in some US counties blog.dol.gov/2024/11/19/n...

music is really loud math

New national- and state-level overweight and obesity prevalences and forecasts published in the Lancet. By 2050, in most states, a projected two in three adults (≥25 years) will have obesity.

Who knows of small grants that are suitable for graduate students? It’s time to update my list!

I’m here. I think about cheese a lot. Oh, also economics.