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Number of households with hungry children nearing 14 million, study finds

Before March 13, the day the federal government declared a national emergency, the number of households with hungry children was just over 12 million. That has increased more than 1.5 million in four months.

Philadelphia Sheriff Officers and volunteers load boxes of food, bound for North Philadelphia residents, from the Share Food Program distributed at the Young Chances Foundation in Point Breeze in April.
Philadelphia Sheriff Officers and volunteers load boxes of food, bound for North Philadelphia residents, from the Share Food Program distributed at the Young Chances Foundation in Point Breeze in April.Read moreYong Kim / File Photograph