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Ielo, Natalie Francesca – Online Submission, 2022
The purpose of this study was to discover if food insecurity worsened in North American children during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study explored the prevalence of social food programs during remote learning periods when the pandemic halted in-person learning. Through progressive theoretical sampling, I investigated American and Canadian newspaper…
Descriptors: Food, Hunger, Security (Psychology), COVID-19
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Hauver, Jennifer; Shealey-Griffiths, Glennda – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2017
One in four children in the state of Georgia is food insecure. In the city of Athens, 60 miles northeast of Atlanta, the number approaches one in three. More than 33 percent of residents have significantly limited access to healthy foods, living in areas of the city that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has identified as food deserts.…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Social Studies, Food, Hunger