Food security among California's low-income adults improves, but most severely affected do not share in improvement.

ood insecurity in California decreased during the recent economic expansion, but it has not improved to the level achieved at the end of the last period of economic growth. In 2005, 30% of the state’s low-income adults experienced food insecurity, down from a high of 33.9% in 2003, but still higher than the 29.1% rate in 2001 based on analyses of the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS). In 2005, approximately 2.5 million California adults (plus their family members) could not afford to put adequate food on the table on a consistent basis in the previous year. F