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• December 2010

Child Hunger Facts

In one study, 6 to 11 year old children from households with insufficient food had signifcially lower arithmetic scores and were more likely to have repeated a grade than children from food-sufficient households.

1 in 4 children do not eat reuglar meals each day because of the lack of food in their home.

Hungry Children are twice as likey to be absent from school than their peers who are not suffering from hunger.

Hungry children suffer from 2 to 4 times as many individual health problems than their pees who are not suffering from hunger.

Texas ranks in the top four states with the highest rate of food insecure children.

Studies have shown that children from househoulds with insufficient food have poorer test scores.