one in seven -- struggled to get enough to eat in 2008, the highest total in 14 years of a federal survey on "food insecurity," the U.S. government said Monday.
huge increase from the preceding year when 36.2 million people had trouble getting enough food and a third of them
The number of Americans receiving food stamp assistance soared above 36 million for the first time in August[2009], the eighth month in a row that enrollment set a record, the USDA said earlier this month.
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