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Closing the Meal Gap: The Hunger Index

Closing the Meal Gap: The Hunger Index. Drew Starbird. What is the Hunger Index?. MEASURE. COMPARE. REVEAL. UNDERSTAND. How do we use the Hunger Index?. Monitoring. Forecasting. Communicating. Decision-making. Partnering. Hunger in Santa Clara County 2012. $7,000.

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Closing the Meal Gap: The Hunger Index

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  1. Closing the Meal Gap:The Hunger Index Drew Starbird

  2. What is the Hunger Index? MEASURE COMPARE REVEAL UNDERSTAND

  3. How do we use the Hunger Index? Monitoring Forecasting Communicating Decision-making Partnering

  4. Hunger in Santa Clara County2012

  5. $7,000 Eligible for CalFresh Household Spending on Food

  6. How many households are vulnerable?

  7. Where do Vulnerable households get food?

  8. Santa Clara County 2012595 Million Meals185,000 households

  9. Food Assistance in Santa Clara 2012Total Food Assistance: 153.8 million meals

  10. How are we doing?

  11. Santa Clara County Hunger Index 49.8% 50.2% 50.1% 50.2%

  12. What have we learned?

  13. Households are spending more on food and getting less. What will inflation do?

  14. Need to reconsider how we define “vulnerable.” Are we capturing everyone?

  15. Food assistance growing faster than need. Can we sustain it?

  16. We make a difference, and we need to do more. Together we can.

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