High rates of hunger persisted in the United States in 2013, with 49 million Americans - 16 million of them children - unable to consistently eat nutritious food.
File photo: Mariana Chilton, associate professor and director of the Center for Hunger-Free Communities at the Drexel University School of Public Health, hugs Joe-anna Parks, 3, at an event at the St. Christopher's Hospital for Children in Philadelphia in May 2011.Read moreSharon Gekoski-Kimmel
