Millions of families have gone hungry since Republicans and Joe Manchin ended child tax credit

According to a new U.S. Department of Agriculture report, in 2022, the United States experienced more than a 30% spike in food insecurity among Americans and a 44% increase among children. That breakdown means 30.8 million adults and 13.4 million children weren’t always sure they would have food on the table. These percentages don’t technically include the “11.7 million adults (4.6 percent of adults)” that “lived in households with very low food security, and 783,000 children (1.1 percent of children) [that] lived in households with very low food security among children.” This is the highest spike since the dark days of the 2008 financial crisis.