Food Insecurity Is Rising. The USDA Just Stopped Counting.

We don’t disagree on the problem. We’ve just been trained to fear the solution.

The Household Food Security Report was never sexy. It didn’t trend and rarely made headlines. However, it told the truth, quietly, methodically, every year since 1995.

Run by the USDA’s Economic Research Service, the report measured the number of American households that lacked sufficient food, not in abstract, economic terms, but in real, gut-level ques…