Current:Home > ContactMore military families are using food banks, pantries to make ends meet. Here's a look at why. -Core Financial Strategies
More military families are using food banks, pantries to make ends meet. Here's a look at why.
View
Date:2025-04-19 12:02:06
A new study on military families using food banks and pantries points to larger issues of economic insecurity, according to researchers at the University of Georgia and elsewhere who conducted the study.
The study found that among U.S. Air Force and U.S. Army enlisted personnel who applied for childcare support in spring of 2021, 13.2% had used some kind of food distribution within the past year.
veryGood! (32812)
Related
- Costco membership growth 'robust,' even amid fee increase: What to know about earnings release
- Hasan Minhaj responds to New Yorker profile, accusation of 'faking racism'
- Former Premier Li Keqiang, China’s top economic official for a decade, has died at 68
- Experts reconstruct face of teenage Inca girl sacrificed over 500 years ago in Peru
- Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie return for an 'Encore,' reminisce about 'The Simple Life'
- Duran Duran reunites with Andy Taylor for best song in a decade on 'Danse Macabre' album
- From Stalin to Putin, abortion has had a complicated history in Russia
- I need my 401(K) money now: More Americans are raiding retirement funds for emergencies
- The FBI should have done more to collect intelligence before the Capitol riot, watchdog finds
- Former Premier Li Keqiang, China’s top economic official for a decade, has died at 68
Ranking
- California DMV apologizes for license plate that some say mocks Oct. 7 attack on Israel
- 'Shock to the conscience': 5 found fatally shot in home near Clinton, North Carolina
- Abortions in the U.S. rose slightly after states began imposing bans and restrictions post-Roe, study finds
- Calvin Harris, Martin Garrix, Tiësto to return to Miami for Ultra Music Festival 2024
- Rams vs. 49ers highlights: LA wins rainy defensive struggle in key divisional game
- DC pandas will be returning to China in mid-November, weeks earlier than expected
- Carjacking call led police to chief’s son who was wanted in officers’ shooting. He died hours later
- Gulf oil lease sale postponed by court amid litigation over endangered whale protections
Recommendation
Paige Bueckers vs. Hannah Hidalgo highlights women's basketball games to watch
Residents shelter in place as manhunt intensifies following Lewiston, Maine, mass shooting
Brittney Griner, 5-time Olympian Diana Taurasi head up US national women’s roster for November
Survivors of deadly Hurricane Otis grow desperate for food and aid amid slow government response
Dick Vitale announces he is cancer free: 'Santa Claus came early'
NHL suspends Ottawa Senators' Shane Pinto half a season for violating sports wagering rules
AP Week in Pictures: Global | Oct. 20 - 26, 2023
Pedro Argote, wanted in killing of Maryland judge, found dead