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handle is hein.amenin/aeiaddf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Key Points Food insufficiency rates snce the sat of the ,oaremi c-tlat is, not having enough food to eat ----have hovered around 11 percent of all US households and 14 percent r S households with elildren, with little fluctuaton week toweek. Assessing househods' perceived changes in food insufficieicy from before ilhe pardernc to after shows only sight increases, indicating that tederal economic relief efforts likely protected rany Soseholds inor increases in severe food hardship. Food r-sufficer,,y evels remaired elevated tor households that experienced er.ployrnert dis,.-tions and recent unemployment, espe , ially when houseiho l Ids did not report re,:eiving unernlioynent cornpersation. For food in'sutficiency eveis to remain stable, these findings point to a continued need for providing econornic reief to households that have experienced ernployment disruptions. The coronavirus pandennic has caused the most severe disrupton to the US labor market un recent history. Data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics show the US un-.employm3ent rate rising rapidly from a tow of 35 percent in February to a peak rate of 14-7 percent in April and gradually falling to io a perent in Jey.' Such a rapid disruption to the labor market raises numerous questions about financial hardship in the wake of tiis co4sts, especially in light of the 5: trillion response to the economic upheaval t Congress passed and President Donaid leurp signed oN March 2,2o20. On one hand, millions of families have lost employ- ment income thev vould normaliv use to cover neces- sitres such as food and rent. On the other hand, the federal response to the pandemic has been unpre.- edented i, both its size and scope The Cornattus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act dramatically increased unemployment benefits and sent Szoo to the vast majority of US adults through economic impact payments.2 Additionaly, Congress authorized sevecral hanges to the nation's food assis- tance programs throuh the Families First Coronavirus Response Act.3 The Famnilies First Act allowed states to allocate the maxinmm Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefit to enrolled house- hods,4 roll back work requirements for able-bodied adult SNAP recipients,5 implement the Pandemic Electronic Benefits Fransfecr (P.E'T) program to provide food benefits to households whose children received free or reduced meals before schools shut do-wnp,6 and incease finding for the emergency food program to help stock food pantries and othier food distribution programs.; ;,, ,,.,, -) R i C A ii :.')i ({R i- R 3 - i , i{L!j

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