For more than two decades, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Household Food Security Report tracked hunger nationwide, providing policymakers and nonprofits with a key data source.

The Stevens County Food Assessment was a year-long effort to evaluate food systems and food security in Stevens County, MN. Data was collected by surveys of residents, a grocery store market basket ...

This weekend, the USDA announced the end of its Household Food Security Reports, calling them “redundant, costly, politicize(d), and extraneous studies (that) do nothing more than fear monger.” ...