Hunger in Spokane County, by the numbers

A snapshot of hunger in Spokane County:

42 percent of emergency food clients are children

59 percent of parents skip meals so their children can eat

53 percent of adults with children skip meals when they run low on food. Of those, 33 percent skip meals weekly and 28 percent skip meals at least once a month.

61 percent of the households receive food stamps – with 37 percent receiving less than $100 each month and 32 percent receiving $100-$199 a month.

Throughout the Inland Northwest, 197,000 people are served by Second Harvest Food Bank every year – 50 percent of the households served have at least one employed adult, and 56 percent of all clients live in rural or suburban areas.

Source: Second Harvest’s 20th annual survey of emergency food service clients

in Spokane County in 2006 and “Hunger in America 2000”