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CSPI - Center for Science in the Public Interest

09/23/2025 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 09/23/2025 10:10

Not reporting on hunger doesn’t make it go away: CSPI condemns reckless USDA move on food insecurity report

Statement of CSPI Vice President of Programs Anupama Joshi

The Center for Science in the Public Interest strongly condemns the decision by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to terminate the annual Household Food Security Reports. For the last 30 years, the USDA's annual food security report has been a vital resource for tracking national rates of food insecurity and hunger, enabling researchers to evaluate the impact of federal nutrition assistance programs (most notably the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP) and providing the basis for evidence-based policies to address drivers of food insecurity.

Based on the announcement from USDA over the weekend, it's not clear whether the government will stop collecting and publishing data on food security (which is done through the Census Bureau's Current Population Survey) or if it only intends to stop summarizing these data in the annual Household Food Security reports that are released by USDA. CSPI implores the Census Bureau to continue measuring food security annually and to make the data publicly available.

In its announcement over the weekend, USDA falsely claimed that the prevalence of food insecurity has remained virtually unchanged since 2019. On the contrary, food insecurity declined from 2010 to 2021, hitting the lowest observed level since the Great Recession, and has been increasing for the two years since. Through the One Big Beautiful Bill, Congress recently enacted changes to SNAP that will cause millions of people to lose their food assistance benefits, despite SNAP's proven success at alleviating food insecurity. USDA's decision to not report on food insecurity is in line with the Trump administration's track record of suppressing inconvenient statistics. The public deserves to know the true impact of recent cuts to SNAP and other nutrition assistance programs on hunger. The only way to measure impact is through data, and without the Household Food Security Reports, this will be much harder to assess.

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