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HUNGER ISSUES IN THE NEWS

2011

Health

"The state of health in Tarrant County," by Jan Jarvis, Star-Telegram, March 18, 2011. "We're too fat, more of us are being diagnosed with diabetes, and about 1 in 4 Tarrant County adults has no health insurance. That's the portrait painted by Tarrant County Public Health in its third Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System project.  The data, collected from October 2009 through February 2010, cover everything from binge drinking to the percentage of adults who would drive their personal vehicle if ordered to evacuate after a major disaster."  Download complete report (PDF) on county residents' health.


Children


"Homeless Children: The Hard Times Generation," a report on U.S. children and teens descending into poverty as a result of the recession by CBS News, March 2011.