https://www.chicagosfoodbank.org/get-involved/learn/

National Issues: 44.2 million people lived in households that have difficulty getting enough food to feed everyone in 2022. Approximately 49 million people, or 1 out of 6 people in the U.S still rely on food assistance from charities. People in rural communities and the South are more likely to lack access to enough food, because of many factors like poverty, unemployment and the cost of living. Millions of people in America are just one lost job, paycheck or medical emergency away from hunger.

https://frac.org/hunger-poverty-america

Global Issues: Nearly 258 million people across 58 countries experienced crisis-level food insecurity or worse according to the World Food Programme. Crisis levels and above mean people have so little food available their lives or household s are in immediate danger. After COVID the world was all affected emotionally and financially, the number of people left with little food was the highest record and shows the fourth consecutive year of increasing acute food insecurity globally. Economic shocks surpassed conflict as the main drive in three countries, Afghanistan, South Sudan, an Syria.

https://www.worldvision.org/hunger-news-stories/world-hunger-facts#:~:text=In%202022%2C%20nearly%20258%20million,livelihoods%20are%20in%20immediate%20danger.