Record #:

22043

Author(s):

Porter, Jane

Abstract:

Food insecurity is rising in the state. The term refers to a household's inability to have food for an active healthy life at some time, but not all of the time because decisions must be made between paying house and medical bills balanced against buying good food. Since 2000, one in five North Carolinians have been in this category at one time or another. Such numbers rank the state sixth among the country's most food-insecure states at 19.3 percent.

Source:

Indy Week (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 31 Issue 3, Jan 2014, p18-19, il

Subject(s):

Nutrition; Food availability