The Trump administration’s recent use of food stamp benefits as a political football — and the president’s willingness to withhold funding — demonstrated how quickly lower-income Americans can end up on the brink of not having enough for their families to eat.
It’s hard to place that vulnerability in a sensible context. The U.S. is the world’s third-largest producer and leading exporter of food, and America wastes between 30% and 40% of its food supply every year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Yet more than 47 million people in this country, including millions of children, either don’t have enough to eat or don’t know where their next meal is coming from.
