From Houston Public Media :

Texas has been called the hungriest state in the country, having the highest food insecurity rate nationwide, according to the nonprofit Feeding America . One in six Texans regularly goes hungry, a third of whom are children . That’s more than 3% above the national average .

Federal and state programs designed to ease hunger and poverty, like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP , provide a lifeline for families — sometimes determining whether a child has food on their plate.

“I grew up in a food insecure house, and the only reason that we did eat on many occasions was because of food that came our way via programs such as SNAP,” said Stephanie Miller, a stay-at-home mom living in The Woodlands, about 30 miles north of Hou

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