{"id":119740,"date":"2011-08-25T14:29:42","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T19:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=119740"},"modified":"2011-08-26T13:59:54","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T18:59:54","slug":"new-study-over-80000-east-texas-children-at-risk-of-hunger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=119740","title":{"rendered":"New Study: Over 80,000 East Texas Children at Risk of Hunger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=119743\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-119743\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/08\/thumb_easttexasfoodbank-150x119.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"thumb_easttexasfoodbank\" width=\"150\" height=\"119\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-119743\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTYLER \u2013 The East Texas Food Bank and Feeding America, the nation\u2019s largest hunger relief organization, have released a new study which reveals in 26 East Texas counties, 27 percent of children &#8212; that\u2019s over 80,000 &#8212; under the age of 18 are struggling with hunger.   The study, \u201cMap the Meal Gap: Child Food Insecurity 2011\u201d, also reveals that there are children struggling with hunger in every county in America.  Nationally, while one in six Americans overall are food insecure, the rate for children is much higher: nearly one in four children are food insecure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe study is an important tool because it provides critical information for developing strategies to alleviating child hunger,\u201d said Dennis Cullinane, executive Director of the East Texas Food Bank.  \u201cThis study will allow us to target those East Texas counties that have a high child food insecurity rates and a lack of participation in our Child Hunger Programs, such as:  the BackPack Program, Summer Food Service Program, Kids Cafe and After School Snack Program.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>Key points of the study:<\/p>\n<p>o\t27 percent of East Texas children are food insecure.<\/p>\n<p>o\tOf the 80,000 children who are food insecure, 78 percent of the children in East Texas are eligible for assistance from federal nutrition programs like Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), free or reduced-price school meals, and others.<\/p>\n<p>o\tOf the 80,000 children who are food insecure, 22 percent of children in East Texas are not eligible for assistance from federal nutrition programs like Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), free or reduced-price school meals, and others.<\/p>\n<p>The research is supported by ConAgra Foods Foundation.   Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedingamerica.org\/mapthegap\/childsummary\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.feedingamerica.org\/mapthegap\/childsummary<\/a> to find an executive summary of the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2013 The East Texas Food Bank and Feeding America, the nation\u2019s largest hunger relief organization, have released a new study which reveals in 26 East Texas counties, 27 percent of children &#8212; that\u2019s over 80,000 &#8212; under the age of 18 are struggling with hunger. The study, \u201cMap the Meal Gap: Child Food Insecurity &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=119740\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Study: Over 80,000 East Texas Children at Risk of Hunger<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-28 05:31:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119740"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120053,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119740\/revisions\/120053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}