About 1 in 7 children in San Diego County (14.5%) live in food-insecure households, per new estimates shared first with Axios from Feeding America, a nationwide network of food banks.
- That’s more than 100,000 kids who don’t have enough to eat or don’t know where their next meal will come from.
Why it matters: Potential cuts or changes to federal food aid programs like SNAP — or CalFresh in California — and tariffs on imported foods could affect millions of Americans and exacerbate the childhood hunger crisis.
- These federal cuts would also impact local farmers whose produce helps fuel food banks and school meal programs.
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