Tag: hunger
People with disabilities have high rates of food insecurity because they earn less or can’t work at all. Add to that their unusually large expenses for health care and assistive equipment like wheelchairs and special computers. But the roots of food insecurity run deeper than just the financial constraints. Even middle-income people with disabilities ar…
More than 10 percent of the nation’s retirees struggle with hunger. New research offers one explanation: when people retire and give up a regular paycheck, they sometimes adjust to having less income by reducing their food intake. After retiring, the men in the study ate 17 percent less protein, which becomes more important as peo…