Congress barely dents scourge of hunger in military > Fully 24 percent of active-duty servicemembers recently experienced “low food security,” meaning they som

Congress barely dents scourge of hunger in military > Fully 24 percent of active-duty servicemembers recently experienced “low food security,” meaning they sometimes lacked quality meals, according to the latest Pentagon survey of troops in late 2020 and early 2021 — before the recent inflation surge. Of those, 10 percent periodically experienced “very low food security,” meaning they sometimes ate less at mealtime, missed meals entirely or lost weight due to inadequate food intake in the previous year. > Those percentages suggest that 286,800 active-duty servicemembers have had some level of food insecurity of late, and nearly 120,000 of them have sometimes gone hungry recently due to a lack of food, according to senators on the Armed Services Committee. The figures do not count family members of those active-duty personnel. Nor are reservists and their family members included in the tally. https://rollcall.com/2023/01/13/congress-barely-dents-scourge-of-hunger-in-military/ https://rollcall.com/2023/01/13/congress-barely-dents-scourg...