(WFXR) -- A new study from No Kid Hungry Virginia indicates that 45 percent of Virginians are going into debt due to rising food costs.

The numbers trend higher for families with children attending public schools. Fifty-two percent of parents claim higher food prices are putting them in debt.

The child advocacy group hired Change Research to conduct the study. A total of 1,128 Virginia adults were surveyed, many of them parents.

Sixty percent of adults and 75 percent of families surveyed said they've had to choose between buying groceries and paying for other essentials, like fuel, car payments, child care, rent or mortgage payments, or utilities. That's a substantial increase from 2024, when 46 percent of those surveyed reported having to make those kinds of decisions.

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