39 % of households requesting emergency food have at least one working adult.

Requests for emergency food assistance have risen by 14% in American families, with nearly two-thirds of requests coming from families with children.

14.8 million people in the Unites States are members of working poor families.

Of emergency food recipient households with at least one person working, 49% are those employed and working full time (40 hours or more per week).

Over the past two decades, the poverty rate among working families has increased by nearly 50%.

Senior citizens make of 16.5% of all emergency food pantry clients.

Approximately 28% of all emergency food clients have missed meals in the past month. Additional research has estimated that 1.1 million seniors have skipped meals because there is no food in the house.

Source: America's Second Harvest website (www.secondharvest.org)