Hunger, Poverty, and Health During COVID-19 - SPOTLIGHT: Households With Low

Hunger, Poverty, and Health During COVID-19 SPOTLIGHT: Households With Low Educational Attainment FIGURE 1: People With Low Educational Attainment (less than a high school degree) Prior to and During COVID-19 Prior to COVID-19 During COVID-19 Hunger Poverty Health Hunger Poverty Health Increasing Half of households COVID-19 deaths disparities in with less than a More than double More than double A. [...] in 2016 was 12.3 percent).2 During COVID-19 Poverty: In 2019, poverty rates were 23.7 percent among individuals with less than a high school education, 11.5 Hunger: In early January 2021, food insufficiency rates percent among those with a high school degree, and 7.8 among respondents with less than a high school education percent among those with some college. [...] Individuals with lower education have Hunger, Poverty, and Health With Low Educational Attainment n Food Research & Action Center n May 2021 n www.frac.org 1 FIGURE 2: Food Insufficiency Rates and Impact of the Federal Nutrition Educational Attainment Programs Participation in school meals are associated with improved 40% attendance, behavior, academic performance; and the 35%. [...] Between February 2020 and April 2020, individuals with a Gains in program access and benefit adequacy high school degree or some college experienced a 15 and during COVID-19 provide important best practices for 16 percentage point decrease in employment, respectively, strengthening and expanding the federal nutrition compared to a 9-percentage point decrease among those programs. [...] Health: Counties with a higher proportion of residents with less than a high school education have been associated with higher rates of COVID-19 cases and deaths.11,12 Hunger, Poverty, and Health With Low Educational Attainment n Food Research & Action Center n May 2021 n www.frac.org 2 .