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 table or had to forego other basic needs to do so, and almost 900,000 of these low-income, food-insecure adults experienced episodes of hunger. R