The Determinants of Food Insecurity among Food Bank Clients in the United States

The majority of poor households in the United States are food secure which is both surprising and not well‐understood. We increase our understanding by looking at a particularly vulnerable group—people visiting food pantries—through the use of the Hunger in America (HIA) 2014 data set. Along with providing information on households often overlooked in other data sets, HIA has a wide array of questions. We find, in comparison to food secure...