Study: Nearly a quarter of US adults don’t get enough food

Nearly 25 percent of American adults are food insecure, and roughly 10 percent are anxious about their ability to pay for food, the Urban Institute said in a report released Tuesday.

The report said that a December 2022 poll of nearly 8,000 Americans ages 18 to 64 found that the number of people who are food insecure was up almost 5 percent from the same time in 2021. About 1 in 6 adults relied on charitable food, up from 1 in 8 before the COVID-19 outbreak.