Despite federal food assistance and private charitable programs, food insecurity is a persistent national problem.

We found that kindergarten girls from food-insecure families tend to gain more weight than other girls, which may put them at risk for obesity as adults.

We found that reading development, in particular, is affected in girls, though the mathematical skills of food-insecure children entering kindergarten also tend to develop significantly more slowly than other children's.

African aid is never, never going to end food insecurity.

Arkansas is fourth in food insecurity.

After managing to resolve an impasse in the food insecurity situation, the United Nations should take the issue of civil and political liberties seriously and, right now, should at the very least insist on VOP being allowed to resume broadcasting freely and should demand the immediate release of its three journalists.