In the USA, according to the US Department of Agriculture, 33.6 million people lived in food-insecure households, including 12.7 million children. Of these individuals, 6.1 million adults and 3 million children lived in households where someone experienced hunger during the year. The number of children living in households classified as 'food insecure with hunger among children' was 467,000 (0.6 percent of the children in the Nation).</p><p><a href="http://www.ers.usda.gov/briefing/foodsecurity/trends/">ERS/USDA Briefing Room - Food Security in the United States: Conditions and Trends</a>