LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Seth Green attends Feeding America Hosts Hunger Action Month Event At the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank.(Photo by Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images for Feeding America) Getty Images for Feeding America

Hunger and food insecurity are problems in the United States. Measuring their existence and the role federal and state governments play in their mitigation is vital, according to public health experts. But now an annual report on hunger and food insecurity issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture is being discontinued by the Trump administration. The USDA placed a dozen researchers, supervisors and administrators on paid administrative leave. Among them were several top officials responsible for producing the report. The survey matters because it tracks key trends an

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