http://webapps.elca.org/hunger/RSSFeeds/FastFacts.aspxLatest Fast Facts from the ELCA2013-06-17T05:00:00Two-thirds of all SNAP payment errors are a result of caseworker error. Nearly one-fifth are underpayments, which occur when eligible participants receive less in benefits than they are eligible to receive.http://webapps.elca.org/hunger/RSSFeeds/FastFacts.ashx2013-06-10T05:00:0023%- percentage of people with a disability who were in poverty. By comparison, those without a disability had a poverty rate of 15 percent. http://webapps.elca.org/hunger/RSSFeeds/FastFacts.ashx2013-06-03T05:00:00Median earnings in the past 12 months for people with a disability— $19,735. This compares with $30,285 for those without a disability.http://webapps.elca.org/hunger/RSSFeeds/FastFacts.ashx2013-05-27T05:00:00Looking at the connection between water and climate change, the UN predicts that rainfall variability alone could push over 12 million people into absolute poverty.http://webapps.elca.org/hunger/RSSFeeds/FastFacts.ashx2013-05-20T05:00:00The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) is designed to supplement the diets of low-income Americans. In 2012 Congress appropriated $308.25 million for the program, $260.25 to purchase food and $48 million for for administrative support to state and local agencies.http://webapps.elca.org/hunger/RSSFeeds/FastFacts.ashx2013-05-13T05:00:00The USDA estimates that every $5 in new SNAP benefits generates as much as $9 of economic activity.http://webapps.elca.org/hunger/RSSFeeds/FastFacts.ashx2013-05-06T05:00:00The United States is the world’s largest consumer of sweeteners (including high-fructose corn syrup) and among the largest sugar importers. Source: Economic Research Service-USDAhttp://webapps.elca.org/hunger/RSSFeeds/FastFacts.ashx2013-04-29T05:00:00The U.S. Department of Agriculture reports that by this time last year, 26 percent of the country's corn crop was already planted. This year, farmers only have 4 percent of their corn in the ground.http://webapps.elca.org/hunger/RSSFeeds/FastFacts.ashx2013-04-22T05:00:00An earth day fast fact: 25.5 minutes is the estimated average time for workers age 16 and older across the country spent getting to work in 2011, up from 25.1 minutes in 2009 and 25.3 minutes in 2010.http://webapps.elca.org/hunger/RSSFeeds/FastFacts.ashx2013-04-15T05:00:00A food price spike in 2010/11 prevented 48.6 million people from escaping poverty in the short-run. (Source: 2013, Bread for the World report, p.34)http://webapps.elca.org/hunger/RSSFeeds/FastFacts.ashx2013-04-08T05:00:0022 million Americans are unemployed or underemployed. http://n.pr/XXWB5Q http://webapps.elca.org/hunger/RSSFeeds/FastFacts.ashx2013-04-01T05:00:00From 2000-2011, poverty in the United States increased from 11.3 percent to 15.0 percent. Source: Carmen DeNavas-Walt, Bernadette D. Proctor, and Jessica C. Smith (September 2012), Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States, 2011, U.S. Census Bureau.http://webapps.elca.org/hunger/RSSFeeds/FastFacts.ashx2013-03-25T05:00:00Various estimates indicate that, based on business as usual, ~3.5 planets Earth would be needed to sustain a global population achieving the current lifestyle of the average European or North American. http://webapps.elca.org/hunger/RSSFeeds/FastFacts.ashx2013-03-18T05:00:00About 70% of the poor living below $1.25 a day are now in middle-income countries.http://webapps.elca.org/hunger/RSSFeeds/FastFacts.ashx2013-03-11T05:00:00Over the last 3 decades the share of the family budget spent on food has fallen for all but the poorest Americans.http://webapps.elca.org/hunger/RSSFeeds/FastFacts.ashx2013-03-04T05:00:00Developing countries are home to 87 percent of the world’s youth.http://webapps.elca.org/hunger/RSSFeeds/FastFacts.ashx2013-02-25T05:00:00The World Food Programme calculates that $3.2 billion is needed per year to reach all 66 million hungry school-age children.http://webapps.elca.org/hunger/RSSFeeds/FastFacts.ashx2013-02-18T05:00:00515 million youth, nearly 45% of all youth (age 15-24), live on less than $2 per day.http://webapps.elca.org/hunger/RSSFeeds/FastFacts.ashx2013-02-11T05:00:00An estimated 22 million U.S. children use SNAP to purchase a nutritionally adequate diet. This represents close to 1 in 3 children (29 percent) in the United States. (Source: 2013 Bread for the World Hunger Report, 114; Notes #2)http://webapps.elca.org/hunger/RSSFeeds/FastFacts.ashx2013-01-28T05:00:00If US high schools and colleges were to raise the graduation rates of Latino, African American, and Native American students to the levels of white students by 2020, the potential increase in personal income would add more than $310 billion to the U.S. economy. (Source: 2013 Bread for the World Hunger Report, 115).http://webapps.elca.org/hunger/RSSFeeds/FastFacts.ashx2013-01-21T05:00:00Food Demand is projected to rise 50% by 2030.http://webapps.elca.org/hunger/RSSFeeds/FastFacts.ashx2013-01-14T05:00:00A recent study finds that of the 4 billion tons of food produced in the world each year, about half is thrown away, allowed to rot, or fed to animals.(Source: http://www.marketplace.org/topics/world/food-9-billion/half-worlds-food-thrown-out-wasted-study) http://webapps.elca.org/hunger/RSSFeeds/FastFacts.ashx2013-01-07T05:00:00In 2011 14.9% (17.9 million) U.S. households were food insecure, the highest record observed since 2008.http://webapps.elca.org/hunger/RSSFeeds/FastFacts.ashx2012-12-31T05:00:00In spite of the billions of dollars in remittances sent to the Northern Triangle by immigrants, poverty rates remain high: in El Salvador (38%), Guatemala (51%), and Honduras (59%).http://webapps.elca.org/hunger/RSSFeeds/FastFacts.ashx2012-12-24T05:00:00Remittances are important to Northern Triangle economies: they make up 17% of the gross domestic product in Honduras, 16% in El Salvador, and 10% in Guatemala.http://webapps.elca.org/hunger/RSSFeeds/FastFacts.ashx