These 11 graphics show how bad local food insecurity can be in America

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/04/18/these-11-graphics-show-how-bad-local-food-insecurity-can-be-in-america/


Approximately 49 million people in the United States live in food-insecure households, with nearly 16 million of them being children, according to September Department of Agriculture data. A new analysis by hunger nonprofit Feeding America’s Map the Meal Gap report seeks to quantify that at the county and congressional district level.

The map above shows the county-level results of their analysis, which found that most of the highly insecure counties are in the South. Of the 33 counties with the lowest food-insecurity rates, all but four are in oil-rich North Dakota. Food-budget shortfalls were estimated by using responses to Census questions.