Link: Bread Analysis Shows Hunger and Poverty Among African-American Women and Children Particularly High – Bread Blog

Hunger and poverty are putting more and more African-American women and children at risk of poor nutrition, according to Bread for the World’s annual analysis of hunger and poverty in the African-American community released today.

Here are some key highlights from the analysis:

More than one in four African-Americans (27.4 percent) lived in poverty in 2010, compared to one in seven (15.1 percent) Americans.

More than one-third (39.1 percent) of all African-American children live in poverty, compared to one in five children in the country as a whole.

Furthermore, African-Americans are more likely to go hungry, the analysis reports:

One in four (25.1 percent) African-American households struggled to put food on the table in 2010.

Households with children experienced even higher rates of food insecurity — 32.9 percent of African-American households with children were food insecure, compared to 20.2 percent of all U.S. households with children.

via Bread Analysis Shows Hunger and Poverty Among African-American Women and Children Particularly High – Bread Blog.