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Loyola Jesuit discusses new report on Louisiana food insecurity

Rev. Fred Kammer, S.J., of the Loyola Univ. Jesuit Social Research Institute discusses a new report, Hungry at the Banquet: Food Insecurity in Louisiana. Read more: loyno.edu/jsri/news/hungry-banquet-food-insecurity-louisiana-2018

Louisiana has the second highest rate of food insecurity in the country, according to a new report released by Loyola University New Orleans' Jesuit Social Research Institute (JSRI).

That means there many people across the state don't have enough to eat on a day-to-day basis, despite Louisiana's reputation as a food destination.

The JSRI's report, entitled "Hungry at the Banquet: Food Insecurity in Louisiana 2018" unearths the scope of the state's food insecurity problem.

Some major findings from this report include:

"In Louisiana, 783,400 people, 258,630 of whom are children, struggle with hunger, according to Feeding America. One in six children—17.9 percent—live in households without consistent access to adequate food," the report says.

"Forty-six of the sixty-four parishes in Louisiana have food insecurity rates of 15 percent or higher, and some as high as 34.4 percent. The national average in 2017 was 11.8 percent," it said.

"Food insecurity rates are higher in small towns and rural areas than in cities in Louisiana, as they are nationally," it said.

The entire report can be found here.

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