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"After working all day, coming home to an empty kitchen is hard. The juice is always the first thing to go.

"But we are so lucky. We can come here and get a good hot meal or a bag of groceries that will pull us through."

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NYC Hunger Experience

The Food Bank's NYC Hunger Experience report series, formerly titled NYC Hunger View, tracks annual trends in difficulty affording food among New York City residents. Socio-demographic findings identify which populations throughout the five boroughs are having the greatest difficulty affording food in order to inform policy solutions and address the problem of food poverty.

NYC Hunger Experience 2008 Update
NYC Hunger Experience 2008 Update: Food Poverty Soars as Recession Hits Home shows that the number of city residents experiencing difficulty affording needed food has surged over the past five years — doubling from approximately 2 million to approximately 4 million from 2003 to 2008, representing almost half of all city residents (48 percent). The number having difficulty increased by almost 1 million (26 percent) within the past year alone, the highest increase in the history of the poll. Findings also show that 3.5 million city residents are concerned about needing food assistance (food from soup kitchens, food pantries and/or food stamps) during the next year, including 2.1 million (59 percent) who have never accessed food assistance in the past.

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NYC Hunger Experience 2008
NYC Hunger Experience 2008 report cover According to NYC Hunger Experience 2008, the fifth of a series of reports tracking difficulty affording needed food among New Yorkers, the number of New York City residents experiencing difficulty affording food has increased 55 percent since 2003 — to 3.1 million in 2007.

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NYC Hunger Experience 2006
NYC Hunger Experience 2006 report cover According to NYC Hunger Experience 2006, since 2003 (the earliest year data is available) the number of city residents who experienced difficulty affording needed food in the past year increased steadily from approximately two million to almost three million in 2006.

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NYC Hunger Experience November 2005
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NYC Hunger View September 2005
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NYC Hunger View 2004: Affording Food in a Year of Recovery
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For more information on the NYC Hunger Experience series, contact Ashley Baughman, Director of Research & Evaluation.