Hunger Study 2009
The Idaho Foodbank’s Hunger in Idaho 2010, the largest hunger study ever done in the state, found that 17,200 people needed emergency food assistance on any given week, and 142,200 people per year received assistance.
It also found:
- 142,200 different people received emergency food in 2009.
- 47% of clients in Idaho report having to choose between paying for food or paying for utilities or heating fuel.
- 34% had to choose between paying for food or paying their rent or mortgage.
- 34% had to choose between paying for food or paying for medicine or medical care.
- 37% had to choose between paying for food or paying for transportation.
- 49% had to choose between paying for food or paying for gas for a car.
- Only 36% of IFB client households receive food stamps.
- Among the programs that existed in 2006, 83% of pantries, 60% of kitchens and 64% of shelters in Idaho have seen an increase in the number of people who came to their emergency food program sites.
- Among all client households served by emergency food programs in Idaho, 81% are food insecure, according to the U.S. government’s official food security scale. This includes client households who have low food security and those who have very low food security.
- Among households with children, 86% of those served are food insecure and 38% are food insecure with very low food security.
- 25% of client households in Idaho report having at least one household member in poor health.
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