Idaho Statistics:

• An average of 66,300 (14.6%) Idaho families worried they could not afford food (known as food insecurity) between 2002 and 2004. And 17,377 (3.7%) families had members who actually went hungry (food insecurity with hunger) during the same period. This makes Idaho the 8th hungriest state in the country. Between the previous study in 1999-2001 and the new study in 2002-04, Idaho saw food insecurity increase from 13.0% to 14.6%. The national average was 11.4%, up from 10.4% or 12.6 million households in 1999-01. (U.S. Department of Agriculture, November 2005)
   
• This increase moved Idaho from the state with the 18th worst rate of food insecurity during the 1996-98 period to the 8th worst during 2002-2004. (U.S. Department of Agriculture, November 2005)
   
• 60,000 Idahoans – 24,000 of them children – in 19,000 households went hungry in Idaho between 1998 and 2000. At any given time, between 4% and 5% of Idaho residents are hungry because they cannot afford to buy food. This is an increase from 39,000 hungry Idahoans in 15,000 households between 1996 and 1998. That increase pushes Idaho from 23rd on the national hunger list to sixth worst hunger state in the country. (Brandeis University, Center on Hunger and Poverty, August 2002)
   
• In another study, the US Department of Agriculture ranked Idaho the 4th worst hunger state and found that 4.5% (22,098) of Idaho households experienced hunger between 1999-2001. In its previous study, done between 1996-98, USDA rated Idaho in a tie for 25th. This descent, from 25th to 4th, was the second worst among the 50 states and Washington, D.C. Only Utah's decline was worse. (USDA: Household Food Security in the US, December 2002)
   
• 16.3% of all Idahoans live in food-insecure households. That is, about 198,000 Idahoans – 88,000 of them children – are concerned about their food supply and have adjusted household food management, including reducing the quality of diets. Another 60,000 or 5.0% live in households in which at least one member is hungry. (Oregon Center for Public Policy)
   
• 4.33% (19,000) of all households in Idaho (60,000 people) are food insecure with hunger. That is, food intake for adults in the household has been reduced to an extent that adults have repeatedly experienced the physical sensation of hunger. (Brandeis University)
   
• The Brandeis study also reports there are 36,000 adults and 24,000 children in Idaho who experience hunger. The USDA Economic Research Service estimates that the prevalence of hunger on a typical day is 13% to 18% of the hungry population. This is the population upon which The Idaho Foodbank and its 200-plus agencies are focused.
   
• The 2003-4 poverty rate in Idaho was 10% (136,633 people). In Ada County, it is 8.6% (27,199 people). The child poverty rate in Idaho is 14.9% (54,964 children). In Ada County the average is 10.5% (8,894 children). The national average in 2004 was 12.7% (37 million people), up from 12.5% (35.9 million people) in 2003. (US Census) An estimated 2,000 people are homeless in Boise daily; 18 died in 2004.The poverty line for a family of four is about $18,244. (Federal Register)
   
• The five counties with the highest number of people in poverty are: Ada (27,199 in 2002 up from 23,170 in 2000), Canyon (19,958 in 2002, up from 15,772 in 2000), Kootenai (12,568 in 2002, up from 11,412 in 2000) Bannock (9,967 in 2002, down from 10,503 in 2000), Bonneville (9,412 in 2002, up from 8,335 in 2000), Twin Falls (8,332 in 2002, up from 8,164 in 2000). (US Census 2002)
   
• The highest county poverty rates by percentage are Owyhee (18.2 in 2002, up from 16.9% in 2000), Shoshone (17% in 2002, up from 16.4% in 2000), Madison (16.9% in 2002, down from 30.5% in 2000), Idaho (15.9%, down from 16.3% in 2000), and Clark (15.8% in 2002, down from 19.9% in 2000). (U.S. Census 2002)
   
• 77,000 (12.7%) working Idahoans live in food-insecure households. Another 22,000 (3.7%) live in households in which at least one member is going hungry. (Oregon Center for Public Policy)
   
• A minimum wage worker earns about $11,000 per year. In 1996, the most recent year for which these figures are available, 46% of all jobs in Idaho paid less than the $9.22 needed for a single adult in 1996. The same year, 74% paid less than the $14.42 needed for an adult with two children. (University of Washington Job Gap Study)
   
• 20% of Idaho’s households don’t make the $20,534 ($9.87 per hour) per year needed to rent a two-bedroom house. In Ada and Canyon counties, the necessary income is $23,200 per year. (University of Washington Job Gap Study)
   
• A newer study found that in 2003, 28% of Idaho renters don’t make the $10.13 per hour ($19,449.60) per year needed to pay rent and utilities for a two-bedroom apartment. This is an increase of 26 cents per hour from 2002. Idaho renters must earn at least $11.20 per hour to earn enough for a two-bedroom apartment. (Boise Neighborhood Housing Services and National Low Income Housing Coalition)
   
• This means that on average in Idaho minimum-wage workers must work 87 hours a week at $5.15 per hour to pay the rent. In Ada and Canyon counties, it is 98 hours per week; Bannock is 76 hours; Nez Perce is 79 hours. Madison County has the lowest rents and requires an average of 69 hours; Blaine County is highest at 119 hours. (National Low Income Housing Coalition 2004)
   
• In Ada County the average rent for two-bedroom apartment was $654 per month, $512 in Bannock, $527 in Nez Perce, $795 in Blaine (highest), $462 in Madison (lowest). (National Low Income Housing Coalition)
   
• On any given night, there are approximately 2,000 homeless people in Boise. (Boise City, 2005) In 2004, 18 homeless people died in the Boise area, up from 12 deaths in 2003. (Idaho Statesman)
   
• 20.7% of Idahoans (269,000 people) have no health insurance, compared to the national average of 17.6%. (U.S. Census)
   
• Bankruptcies in Idaho have risen from 7,119 in 2000 to 9,660 in 2003, the ninth highest total in the country. (Administrative Office of U.S. Courts)
   
• In the last few months of 2002, Idaho’s welfare roles increased 15%, more than any other state’s. (Center for Law and Social Policy)
   
• Idaho’s welfare laws rate 51st compared to all other states and Washington, D.C. when ranked for their likelihood to encourage and support families’ efforts to become economically self-sufficient. (Tufts University’s Center on Hunger and Poverty)
   
• Idaho was graded as an “F” for having the worst post-welfare reform social safety net (tied with Indiana and Wyoming) among the 50 states. (Center for Third World Organizing)
   
• Idaho is 11th in the nation in the rate of bankruptcy, 25% higher than it is in the nation as a whole. The bankruptcy rate is increasing over time, too – up 30% from 2000. (Center for American Progress: www.americanprogress.org/bankruptcy

Child Poverty and Hunger:

• The wellbeing of Idaho’s children dropped in 1999 from 24th to 28th among the 50 states, the lowest ranking since 1990. (Annie E. Casey Foundation)
   
• The child poverty rate in Idaho is 16% (62,305 children). (Idaho Kids Count 2005) A recent analysis by the National Center for Children in Poverty showed that 60,000 of Idaho's 176,000 families with children were considered low-income last year, but only 4,100 of those families had parents without jobs. At 6 percent, that was the lowest percentage in the nation. (Idaho Statesman, Nov. 13, 2004) In Ada County* the average poverty rate is 9.2% (8,894 children). The five counties with the highest rate of child poverty are Owyhee (23.5%), Shoshone (23%), Adams (20.9%), Lewis (20.6%) and Boundary (20.3%). The national average is 16.7% (12.1 million children). (US Census 2002) (*Information is available on other counties)
   
• 29% of Idaho young adults live in poverty ranking Idaho worst in the nation. (Idaho Kids Count 2005)
   
• 42% of school-age children – 74,433 Idaho children per day – receive free and reduced lunch. (Idaho Kids Count 2005)
   
• One in eight Idaho children – 49,570 children – go to bed hungry every night. The national figure is 12 million children. (US Census)
   
• 23% of Idaho children live in families where no parent has a full-time, year-round job. [See “The Job Gap” below.] (Annie E. Casey Foundation)
   
• 20% of Idaho children (72,000 children) live in low-income working families; 15% of children live in low-income working families that receive food stamps (the figure is 24% nationwide); 32% of children live in low-income working families without health insurance. [See “The Job Gap” below.] (Annie E. Casey Foundation)
   
• 42% of Idaho children live in low-income working families ranking Idaho 45th in the nation (Idaho Kids Count 2005)
   
• 7% of Idaho children (2,522 children) live in extreme poverty (income below 50% of poverty level). (Annie E. Casey Foundation)
   
• 36% of white Idaho children live in low-income families; 74% of Latino children live in low-income families. (Kids Count 2005)
   
• 17% of Idaho children (64,000) live in crowded housing – a house where the number of people per room is greater than one. (Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics)
   
• 24.2 % or 88,000 of Idaho’s children live in food-insecure households. (Oregon Center for Public Policy)
   
• Persistent hunger interferes with normal child development and makes it difficult to concentrate in school.
   
  • Hungry children suffer two to four times as many health problems as other children, including anemia and vitamin deficiencies. (Dr. Christine Vladimiroff)
     
  • They are more than twice as likely to have frequent headaches, ear infections and colds. Hungry children are also three times as likely to miss school. (Tufts University’s Center on Hunger and Poverty)
     
  • They are also more likely to be sent to a school psychologist and develop cognitive problems, especially if they're undernourished in their first three years, when the brain reaches 80 percent to 90 percent of its adult size. (Dr. Anne Terry, Oregon Health & Science University)
     
  • In an experiment, poor children who got free breakfast at school gained about three percentile points on standardized tests compared to children who were eligible but did not participate in the food program. (New York Times)
     
• Missed meals are not recovered, nor is the energy, potential or joy of being a child.
   
• Hunger in children nationwide was reported by 0.7% of all households with children in 2002. (USDA)
   
• Nationally, low-income children depend on the School Lunch Program for one-third to one-half of their daily nutrition, but funding for this program has been reduced. (USDA) In Idaho, an average of 74,433 children per day at 588 schools participated in the School Lunch Program in 2001-2002. In addition, 24,808 children per day, 34.1%, at 465 schools depended on the School Breakfast Program in 2000-2001. (FRAC)
   
• While 74,433 Idaho children participated in the School Lunch Program, only 16% or 11,911 participated in Summer Nutrition programs in 2002. This is the 27th highest rate in the U.S. Hunger does not take a vacation. (FRAC)
   
• The WIC (Women, Infants and Children) food supplement program in Idaho serves 33,448 women, infants and children. This is an increase of 18% from 1992 and brings $17.7 million to Idaho. (USDA)

• In 2000, the Idaho Legislature ordered the governor to minimize and, if legally possible, eliminate efforts to connect eligible poor people with public benefits, including food stamps and the Child Health Insurance Program (CHIP). The ban went into effect July 1, 2001, and was upheld by the Legislature in 2002. (Associated Press)
   
• 16% of Idaho children (59,000 children) have no health insurance. (Annie E. Casey Foundation)

The Idaho Foodbank:

• Since 1984, through community partnerships, The Idaho Foodbank has distributed 50 million pounds of food. In fiscal 2005, the Foodbank distributed a record 5.6 million pounds of food at its three sites. In 1985 the Foodbank supplied 200,000 pounds of food. In 1989, it reached one million pounds.
   
• The Idaho Foodbank serves a network of more than 200 smaller agencies, including church pantries, kitchens and senior centers, all of which distribute food to those in need at no cost to the recipient.
   
• Needy people received food assistance from the network of Foodbank-supplied agencies 57,551 per month in fiscal 2005.
   
• Two of every three people who rely on the Foodbank are either children too young to work or seniors who have already worked all their lives. Specifically, in 2005, agencies supplied by The Idaho Foodbank served 25,081 unduplicated children, 10,049 senior citizens and 22,421 adults per month.
   
• More than 40% of households that receive food from the Foodbank currently have at least one person working. About half those work fulltime jobs.
   
• More than 70% of households that receive temporary food assistance do so because their household income has temporarily dropped below $10,000 per year.
   
• More than 14% of those who need food assistance own their own homes and a third have at least a high school diploma.
   
• More than 15% of those served say a disability is the primary reason they need food assistance.
   
• There were 237 food drives held for the Foodbank in fiscal 2005.
   
• In 2005, 11,729 volunteers during the fiscal year provided 42,566.50 hours of service – the equivalent of over 20 full-time employees.
   
• Chefs to the Rescue, the Foodbank’s food rescue operation, every month picks up and delivers to those in need 60,000 pounds of food prepared by restaurants and caterers but not served. This is an increase of almost 10,000 pounds per month from January 2002.
• Charity Navigator, an independent monitoring firm, has named the Idaho Foodbank as the most efficient non-profit in Idaho and the second most efficient food bank in the country.

Food Stamps:

• In 1996, Congress cut the food stamp program by $26 billion over six years as part of federal welfare reform. (New York Times)
   
• In 2002, 69,998 Idahoans participated in the Food Stamp program, an increase of 20% since 2000. The average monthly benefit per person was $73.83. (FRAC) In 2002, only 51% of eligible people used food stamps, 40th in the country. (FRAC) In 1999, 29,799 children were in homes that used Food Stamps. (USDA) Food Stamps adds $62 million to Idaho’s economy, (FRAC) but the state is losing $76 million per year in Food Stamps for which Idahoans are eligible but go unclaimed.
   
• Nationally, between 1996, the first year of welfare reform, and 2001, the average monthly participation in the Food Stamp program dropped from 25.5 million people to 17.6 million. (America’s Second Harvest) Some of this decline was due to economic prosperity, but it was also due to changes in the program’s rules, because food stamp use declined even among low-income households. Nationally, the percent of eligible people who participated in the Food Stamp program dropped from 70.8% in 1994 to only 59.4% in 1998. (USDA) Among eligible children, the decrease has been from 86% to 69%. In 1996, Congress eliminated the program’s adjustments for inflation. (Washington Post)
   
• Idaho is missing out on millions of dollars in Food Stamp benefits. In 2000, the most recent figures available, the USDA estimated only 45% of the 119,000 eligible Idahoans (about 53,550 people) used Food Stamps. This is the third lowest rate in the country.
   
• Looked at another way, Food Stamps brought in $62,014,314 into Idaho in 2000. If everyone eligible had participated, that figure would have been $137,809,587.
   
• Right now, some 62,450 Idahoans who are eligible for food stamps aren’t using them, and the state is losing almost $76 million a year.
   
• Nationally, only 30 percent of all emergency food recipients participate in the Food Stamp Program, although almost three-fourths are income-eligible. Of those emergency food clients not enrolled in the Food Stamp Program, 31.5 percent believed they were not income eligible, yet one in five actually were. Of those who had not applied, 37 percent believed they were not eligible, 34 percent found the program too difficult to apply for, and 7 percent didn't apply because of the stigma they felt would be associated with program participation. (America’s Second Harvest)
   
• In 1994, 86% of eligible children in the U.S. were in families getting food stamps. By 1998, the figure was 69%.
   
• In 1999, 55.7% of U.S. households that received food stamps had children, 20% had elderly people and 26.5% had disabled people in the household.
   
• Nationally, in the mid-1990s the Food Stamp program helped feed about 10% of the population, about 27 million people. Now that figure is about 17 million. “This was a retrenchment on the government’s part, at the expense of some of the most vulnerable people in the society, even as other benefits were also being withdrawn. The annual cost of the program declined, from about $25 billion in the mid-1990s to about $15 billion today. Surely a government that has just seen fit to grant a large tax break mainly to the very rich can restore a little of that.” (Washington Post editorial)
   
• 80% of those surveyed lost food stamps, medical assistance and other benefits when they left welfare. They also said their job incomes did not cover the benefits they lost. (NETWORK – a Catholic social-service advocacy group)
   
• In American cities, 61% of people requesting emergency food assistance were members of families with children.

Obesity:

• Obesity is the No. 1 health problem in the country. Sixty-five percent of U.S. adults are either overweight or obese, as are 31% of children. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) In 2000, 38.8 million American adults were classified as obese, meaning their health is seriously at risk.
   
• Minorities are at particular risk. While 13% of Caucasians teen boys are overweight, the rate is 20.5% for African-American teen boys and 27.5% for those of Mexican heritage. For teen girls the rates are 12.2% for whites, 25.7% for blacks and 19.4% for those of Mexican heritage. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
   
• Obesity has been associated with the near epidemic in diabetes and the increase in strokes, reported disabilities in people under 60 and in breast cancer.
   
• The number of obese children almost quadrupled between 1971 and 2000, reaching 15% for those ages 6 to 11. Obese adolescents are twice as apt to live in low-income homes. (all: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention magazine.)

The Job Gap:

• Increasingly, the hungry in America and Idaho are not the homeless but working-poor families who skimp on food to pay their monthly bills, children and the elderly. (America’s Second Harvest)
   
• There are 68,400 people in Idaho who qualify as working poor. The US has 14.8 million working poor. (America’s Second Harvest)
   
• Nationally, the U.S. is experiencing the most protracted job-market downturn since the Great Depression. The total number of people unemployed – including discouraged workers who would prefer to work but have stopped looking – is about 9 million. The number of people who are working part-time because they cannot find full-time work is 4.6 million, up 39 percent since 2001. (Wall Street Journal, quoting Robert Hall of National Bureau of Economic Research, 6/10/03)
   
• Since 2000, Idaho has lost 7,212 manufacturing jobs with an average salary in 2003 of $40,939. Idaho has gained 14,122 service jobs at an average salary of $19,278, which includes call center jobs that reportedly pay $30,000 to $65,000 per year. (Idaho Department of Labor)
   
• In Boise, a family of four needs an annual income of $34,645 to pay for housing, food, health care and other necessities. In rural Idaho, a family needs $33,800. 39.1% or 96,000 people in Idaho earn less than they need to meet those basic needs. (Economic Policy Institute)
   
• A 2002 University of Utah study found that 47% of the former welfare recipients interviewed lived below the federal poverty line even after 20 months off welfare. In 2001, the poverty level for a single mother and one child was an income of $12,207 per year. Researchers also found that 20% of respondents lived below half the poverty level, or had an income of $6,096 per year. Respondents with jobs earned an average of $7.96 per hour or $16,557 per year for full-time work. (Salt Lake Tribune)
   
• In 2000, a living wage in Idaho was calculated to be $10.11 per hour ($21,037 per year) for a single adult. For a single adult with one child it was $12.82 ($26,672). For a single adult with two children it was $15.83 per hour ($32,920). For two adults, one of whom was working, with two children, it was $13.73 per hour ($28,562). For two adults, both of whom were working, with two children, it was $17.96 per hour combined wages ($37,351). (University of Washington Job Gap Study)
   
• The Idaho economy is not creating enough living-wage jobs. The pay offered for 78% of new jobs in Idaho are inadequate to meet a family of three’s basic needs. (Northwest Job Gap Study)
   
• A single adult in Idaho needs to earn $8.68 an hour, or $18,053 a year to meet his or her basic needs. A single parent with two children must earn $18.82 an hour, or $39,137 a year. This living wage includes necessities such as food, housing and utilities, transportation, health care and childcare. It also includes money for savings, which families need for emergencies and to plan ahead. (Northwest Job Gap Study)
   
• Most children who need food assistance are children of the working poor. In Idaho, the cost of living is slightly above the national average, but wage earners bring home 21% less. Twenty-five percent of working people in Idaho earn $8 or less per hour. When families experience crises of any size, buying food becomes a problem. (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
   
• Every adult job seeker in Idaho must compete with two other people for every living-wage position. For adults with children, the prospects of finding living-wage employment are even bleaker. There is only one living-wage job for every 10 job-seeking parents raising two children on their own. (Northwest Job Gap Study)
   
• More than one-third of men in the state’s labor force do not make enough to pay for necessities. Only one of in every four jobs paid enough to provide a single parent a living wage, and when one of those jobs comes open, there are an average of eight applicants. (UW Job Gap Study)
   
• Women on average earn less than $12,500 per year (less than $6 per hour) in Idaho. This is 49.8% of the average man’s wages and is the lowest wages in the country. (US Census)
   
• Only 19% of women and 36% of men in Idaho earn enough to support an adult and two children. (University of Washington Job Gap Study)
   
• 8,659,000 children in the U.S. live in working poor families.
   
• Over the past two decades, the poverty rate among working families has increased by nearly 50%.
   
• In 2002, emergency food requests nationally were up 23%. 48% of those requesting food were families with children. Families with children increased their requests for food by 17%. The leading cause of hunger was low-paying jobs. (The U.S Conference of Mayors annual survey)
   
• In November, Idaho unemployment reached 5.7%, (40,000 workers) the highest rate in 8 years. In December, Gov. Dirk Kempthorne extended unemployment benefits to 2,900 people that were due to expire Dec. 28. However, 16,000 Idahoans have exhausted their benefits and remain unemployed. The state has lost 8,500 jobs since February 2002. The Kempthorne administration's economic forecast is that the economy will remain flat in 2003. (The Idaho Statesman)
   
• About 14,900 people in the Boise metro area are without jobs. (Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce, 2003)

National Hunger Studies:

• The private food assistance network, which includes America’s Second Harvest and The Idaho Foodbank, has become an increasingly important source of supplemental food for about 23 million people per year. The Second Harvest network has grown to more than 200 food banks and 35,000 affiliated food pantries, which supply nearly 2 billion pounds of food annually. (Institute for Research on Poverty)
   
• Nationally, 12.6 million or 11.2% of all households (36.3 million people) were food insecure in 2003, and in 3.9 million of those households (9.6 million people) at least one member experienced hunger because he or she couldn't afford enough food at some time during the last year. The other two-thirds of families avoided hunger by reducing the variety of foods they ate, participating in federal food assistance programs or getting supplies from community food banks and emergency kitchens. The 36.3 million people living in food-insecure households in this country – with or without hunger – included 23 million adults (10.8% of all adults) and 13.3 million children (18.2% of all children.) This number compared to 34.9 million in 2002, 33.6 million 2001, 33.2 million in 2000, and 31 million in 1999. (USDA/Census, Nov. 2004)
   
• In 2004, the National Student Campaign Against Hunger & Homelessness found a 28% rise in emergency food assistance requests, and a 27% increase in requests for emergency shelter. The organization surveyed 900 agencies in 32 states and gathered information from urban and rural areas. About one-quarter of the emergency food providers said they had to turn away requests for food because of a lack of resources. Three-quarters of emergency shelter providers reported turning people away for the same reason. Unemployment and wages too low to afford enough food are among the main reasons that people seek help from shelters and soup kitchens. Many people are also hampered by high housing costs that force them to spend more than 30% of their income on the rent or mortgage payments. (National Student Campaign Against Hunger & Homelessness, Feb. 2005)
   
• Hunger in the United States' major cities rose sharply again in 2003. Requests for emergency food assistance were up 19 percent, and 54% of those who requested food assistance were families with children. 2003 was the 16th consecutive year that the demand for food has increased. Tragically, supply failed to meet demand. 32% of the cities reported they had food assistance facilities that turned people away. The need was expected to increase yet again in 2004. (U.S. Conference of Mayors annual survey)
   
• 54 percent of the people requesting emergency food assistance were members of families – children and their parents. 37 percent were employed. (U.S. Conference of Mayors)
   
• 39% of the households seeking food aid had at least one employed adult.
   
• Low-paying jobs lead the list of causes of hunger, followed by unemployment, high housing costs, changes in the food stamp program, the economic downturn and welfare reform. (U.S. Conference of Mayors)
   
• Unemployment has risen from 5.692 million people in 2000 to 8.378 million in 2003. (America’s Second Harvest The State of Hunger in America 2003)
   
• More people get food from private charities such as food banks than participate in the federal government’s food stamp program. (All results below from America’s Second Harvest’s Hunger in America 2001 study)
   
• Despite a 10-year economic boom, the number of Americans who sought food assistance in 2001 rose to 23 million, up 9% or 2 million people from four years ago.
   
• More people now get food from private charities over the course of a year than participate in the federal food stamp program.
   
• Emergency feeding sites around the country serve more than 7 million people in a given week.
   
• Women accounted for nearly two-thirds of the adults who receive emergency food.
   
• Seniors accounted for 19.7% of the adults who receive emergency food, up from 16% in 1997. Thirty-nine percent of people (9 million) served by Second Harvest affiliates are children. Nearly 54% of seniors were found to be food insecure. The general population rate was 1.8%.
   
• 49% of all food aid recipients lived in rural or suburban areas, not the inner city. And only 10% were homeless.
   
• Nearly 9% of those seeking food in 2001 were children under 5 years old; 30% were aged 6-17 years.

And Finally:

Despite the growing number of food banks and food-recovery programs, the U.S. food service and retail industries throw away 96,000,000,000 pounds of food each year. That is almost 26% of all the food produced for consumption each year. (Former Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman) America’s Second Harvest affiliates distributed 1.4 billion pounds of food in 2001.