Revolution Foods and DBL Partners Announce New Findings Regarding Food Insecurity in America

Poll highlights young people's attitudes and knowledge regarding food security and impact of the pandemic.

PRNewswire
June 10, 2021

Rev­o­lu­tion Foods, a lead­ing provider of healthy com­mu­ni­ty and school meals nation­wide, along­side DBL Part­ners, a ven­ture cap­i­tal firm com­mit­ted to enabling social, envi­ron­men­tal and eco­nom­ic improve­ment, today released the key find­ings of a nation­al poll with 636 respon­dents about food inse­cu­ri­ty in Amer­i­ca done by The Gen­er­a­tion Lab. The sur­vey focus­es on study­ing Amer­i­ca’s 18- to 24-year-olds and explores aware­ness and acces­si­bil­i­ty of food assis­tance pro­grams, as well as behav­iors sur­round­ing food costs. The research reveals that one in five respon­dents are cur­rent­ly wor­ried about food secu­ri­ty for them­selves or their fam­i­lies, and when asked to antic­i­pate their sit­u­a­tion post-pan­dem­ic, their wor­ry height­ens to one in three.

The com­mu­ni­ties we serve all across the U.S. have been sig­nif­i­cant­ly impact­ed by the pan­dem­ic, and this sur­vey was devel­oped to under­stand the broad­er scope of how young Amer­i­cans feel when it comes to acces­si­bil­i­ty and afford­abil­i­ty of healthy meals,” said Kristin Groos Rich­mond, CEO and co-founder of Rev­o­lu­tion Foods. “When the pan­dem­ic hit, as a com­pa­ny we began serv­ing beyond school and after-school part­ners to pro­vide nutri­tious, cul­tur­al­ly rel­e­vant meals to cities at large. As we con­tin­ue ser­vic­ing at this lev­el, we remain com­mit­ted to keep improv­ing our under­stand­ing of food inse­cu­ri­ty in the U.S., as well as ensur­ing these fam­i­lies have prop­er access to healthy meals.”

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