Australia: Nearly one million households struggle to secure adequate food supplies

Almost one million households in Australia are struggling to secure enough food, with parents skipping meals or not eating for days to protect their children from hunger, a report released by Foodbank Australia has found. More than 870,000 households, with incomes of less than A$30,000 a year, face severe food insecurity, a figure up 5% from 2022, the report released by Foodbank Australia, the largest charity to address of hunger in Australia. Single-parent families are the most affected with two-thirds or more of them facing food shortages, according to this source. “We warned at the start of the cost of living crisis that low-income households would suffer first, worst and longest and these findings confirm that,” Foodbank Australia chief executive Brianna Casey said in a statement. “We see […]
Source: News Beast

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