Every fall for about three decades, the U.S. Department of Agriculture released a report looking at household food security around the country. But after releasing a final report on Oct. 22, the USDA won’t produce any more of them.
To prepare the report, the Census Bureau asked some 30,000 people questions about food, hunger, and money. It then broke down their answers by household income, state, and whether the individual used government food assistance.
The USDA says it’s “terminating” these reports, because they are “redundant, costly, politicized, and extraneous.”…