Finding

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Finding Using County Data

• Rachel Cooper Jen Adach- Food Research and
  Action Center
• FRAC/A2H Anti-Hunger Policy Conference
• Washington, DC
• March, 2008

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County Data Available From FRAC

• Detailed poverty and income data from the 2006
  American Community Survey (ACS)
• Poverty by age and race
• Counties over 65,000 people
• At http//frac.org/data

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If Your County is Too Small For The ACS, Then
What?

• August, 2008 release of 2007 ACS
• Counties over 20,000 included (3 year averages)
• FRAC will analyze
• Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE)
  2005
• Basic poverty estimates by age for states,
  counties, and school districts
• http//www.census.gov/hhes/www/saipe/

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Other Sources

• Second Harvest State Hunger Almanacs
• http//secondharvest.org/learn_about_hunger/hunger
  _almanac_2007.html
• Annie E. Casey Foundation Kids Count 
• http//www.kidscount.org/cgi-bin/cliks.cgi?action
  profile
• Bureau of Labor Statistics Local Area
  Unemployment (2006 rate and number)
• ftp//ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/la/laucnty0
  6.txt

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Breaking Down the Numbers

• Make them manageable.
• In D.C, 12.5 percent of households are considered
  to be food insecure.
• In D.C., one of out eight households faces a
  constant struggle against hunger.

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Breaking Down the Numbers

• Make them easy to relate.
• One-fifth of D.C. residents live in poverty, and
  more than 37,000 are children. Thats one out of
  every three children.
• More than 57,000 D.C. residents live in extreme
  poverty. For a family of four, that means they
  live on less than 29 a day for all their
  expenses including food, rent, and
  transportation.