Hunger in America
Hunger in America is often invisible in plain sight, tucked away behind working families, students, seniors, and neighborhoods where the data just doesn’t capture the full picture. The systems we have for assessing food insecurity are often lagging, fragmented, or overly reliant on outdated metrics like income alone, which miss important nuances: housing costs, medical debt, child care expenses, transportation deserts, and even social stigma.
And while people do care — deeply — the infrastructure to clearly, consistently, and locally measure and respond to food need just hasn’t kept up. Without real-time, community-specific data, we’re left making assumptions or chasing symptoms instead of addressing root causes. Tune in Sunday at 9 p.m. on WJR Radio with Phil and Gerry Brisson, president & CEO of Gleaners Community Food Bank, and FFM co-host to hear more.