LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — An annual report that has recently highlighted Arkansas as the state with the highest food insecurity is about to be no more.
Last month, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced it would no longer release its Household Food Security Reports, which have been released annually since the 1990s. The department described the reports as “redundant, costly, politicized, and extraneous studies [that] do nothing more than fear monger.”
“For 30 years, this study—initially created by the Clinton administration as a means to support the increase of SNAP eligibility and benefit allotments—failed to present anything more than subjective, liberal fodder,” the department said in its announcement on Sept. 20.
End of food security reports could impact NWA nonprofit
The Associated Press reported the final report will be released on Oct. 22…