Nearly four million Californians are food insecure.

The Hidden Poor: Over Three-Quarters of a Million Older Californians Overlooked by Official Poverty Line.

More than three-quarters of a million (772,000) older Californians are among the "hidden poor"--older adults with incomes above the federal poverty line (FPL) but below a minimally decent standard of living as determined by the Elder Economic Security Standard™ Index (Elder Index) in 2011. This policy brief uses the most recent Elder Index calculations to document the wide discrepancy that exis...

More than 2.9 million Californians now food insecure--one in three low-income, an increase in just two years.

esults from the most recent California Health Interview Survey (CHIS 2003) indicate that food insecurity has increased significantly among low-income California adults since 2001. In 2003, more than 2.9 million adults in low-income households – those with incomes less than 200% of the federal poverty level (FPL) – experienced periods during the year when they could not afford to put food on the...

Over 2.2 million low-income California adults are food insecure; 658,000 suffer hunger.

A Publication of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research More than 2.24 million low-income adults in California cannot always afford to put food on the table, and as a result, almost one out of three of these adults, 658,000, experiences episodes of hunger. This is a sad reality in a state that has the largest agricultural economy in the United States and produces abundant highquality fruits...

Hunger in Los Angeles County affects over 200,000 low-income adults, another 560,000 at risk.

A Publication of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research Almost one in three low-income adults in Los Angeles County (29.8%) frequently cannot afford to put food on the table. This means that about 775,000 adults are classified as “food insecure.” Among these food-insecure adults, an estimated 214,000 – 8.2% of all the county’s lowincome adults – report experiencing episodes of hunger. The b...

Nearly 6.4 million Californians lacked health insurance in 2007--recession likely to reverse small gains in coverage.