National Center for Children in Poverty, Basic Facts About Food Insecurity Among Children in the United States, 2008. Vanessa R. Wight and Kalyani Thampi, August 2010

“There are about 39.5 million households with children (approximately 34 percent of all households).

• 79 percent were food secure.
• 10.2 percent reported food security among adults only.
• 9.6 percent reported low food security among children.
• 1.2 percent reported very low food security among children.”