Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–October 5, 2011. Today the Center for American Progress and Brandeis University released a groundbreaking report detailing the social and economic costs of hunger in America. The report, “Hunger in America, Suffering We All Pay For,” finds that in addition to federal expenditures to address hunger, the social and economic costs of hunger and food insecurity were $167.5 billion in 2010. The report calls this cost America’s hunger bill. In 2010 America’s hunger bill cost every American $542 annually due to the far-reaching impact of hunger.
