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Food insecurity is measured in the United States by questions in the Census Bureau's Current Population Survey.

The questions asked are about anxiety that the household budget is inadequate to buy enough food, inadequacy in the quantity or quality of food eaten by adults and children in the household, and instances of reduced food intake or consequences of reduced food intake for adults and for children.

A National Academy of Sciences study commissioned by the USDA criticized this measurement and the relationship of " food security " to hunger, adding " it is not clear whether hunger is appropriately identified as the extreme end of the food security scale.

" Since 1960s, the US have been implementing a Food Stamp Program ( now called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ) to directly target consumers who lack the income to purchase food.

According to Tim Josling, a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University, food stamps or other methods of distribution of purchasing power directly to consumers might fit into the range of international programs under consideration to tackle food insecurity.