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Food Research and Action Center  

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  • In 2012, more than one in six Americans lived in poverty and struggled with hunger. This equates to 48.7 million people living in poverty, and 99.1 million people (approximately one-third of the U.S. population) living on less than 185 percent of the federal poverty level ($23,850 for a family of four). [Source: The SAGE Encyclopedia of World Poverty; Food Research and Action Center]

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