Lawmakers decry ‘alarming’ hunger in US military families
Pending legislation would create a new 'basic needs allowance' for low-paid troops
By John M. Donnelly
Posted October 22, 2021 at 10:39am
The Senate Appropriations Committee, in a report this week accompanying its new Defense spending bill, expressed concern over reports of thousands of military families suffering from hunger.
“Studies have found that one in eight military families were food insecure prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and this number has now grown to one in five,” the report said.
Back in June, the House Appropriations Committee’s comparable report had called the development “alarming.”
And both appropriations reports demanded more data from the Pentagon on the problem’s extent.
https://www.rollcall.com/2021/10/22/lawmakers-decry-alarming-hunger-in-u-s-military-families/
