Like many hardships, this burden falls disproportionately on Black and Hispanic families, who are almost twice as likely to experience food insecurity as white families. Like so many who live at hunger’s edge, the members of the extended Stocklas family — whom Kenneally has photographed for years — gain and lose food stamps depending on fluctuating employment status in an unstable economy. Most of the families Kenneally photographed had struggled to feed themselves adequately for years. One in 4 Mississippians is now experiencing food insecurity, according to the nonprofit Feeding America. The causes of chronic food insecurity are many: unemployment; low wages; unaffordable or unstable housing; rising medical costs; unreliable transportation.

Source: New York Times September 02, 2020 23:14 UTC