An estimated 14.9 percent of U.S. households — 17.9 million in total — "had difficulty" at some point last year getting food because they just didn't have enough money or other resources, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported this morning.
In 2010, 14.5 percent of households were similarly "food insecure" at some point, USDA says.
Even worse:
"In 2011, 5.7 percent of U.S. households (6.8 million households and one-third of all food-insecure households) had very low food security.