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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. Closing the Meal Gap: The Hunger Index.
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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
Closing the Meal Gap:The Hunger Index Household Spending on Food 2014 San Mateo and Santa Clara
Closing the Meal Gap:The Hunger Index Vulnerable Households
How many households are vulnerable?(000 households) 25% 75% 26% 74%
Closing the Meal Gap:The Hunger Index Where does the food come from?
Santa Clara & San Mateo Counties 2014733Million Meals226,000 households
Food Assistance in SC & SM Counties 2014TTotal Food Assistance: 219 million meals
Closing the Meal Gap:The Hunger Index How are we doing? The Hunger Index 2014
SC & SM CountyHunger Index (million meals) 44.4% 45.9% 44.4%
Closing the Meal Gap:The Hunger Index What have we learned?
The number of vulnerable households has declined because of better economic conditions
Food assistance declined in the two counties mostly due to government programs
Increase in Food Bank and agency distributions stabilized the Hunger Index.
Population, economics, and disruption drive the need for food. Are we ready for the future?