 PBS’s “Bill Moyer’s Journal” examined the 2007 Farm Bill and the nationwide emergency food shortage in April. Watch this excellent piece of reportage featuring the Food Bank For New York City and food assistance programs in the five boroughs. |
  NYC Hunger ExperienceThe 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.
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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.
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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