Source: Rita Jane Gabbett, MEATINGPLACE, 8/12/11

Nearly one in four U.S. households with children struggled to afford enough food in 2010, according to a new report released Thursday by the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC).

The analysis separately examines food hardship rates – the inability to afford enough food – for households with children and without children nationally, as well as by state, congressional district and in 100 of the country’s largest metropolitan areas.

The analysis shows that food hardship rates are very high both for households with children and those without children. Nationally in 2010 the food hardship rate for households without children was 14.9 percent, and it was 23.4 percent for families with children.

FRAC’s Food Hardship in America series analyzes data that were collected by Gallup, which interviewed more than one million households since January 2008.

The full report is available for download here.