Trump Administration Cancels Annual Hunger Survey

The Trump administration is canceling an annual government effort to gather data on how many Americans struggle to get enough food. 

The data, which is collected each December and analyzed by the U.S. Agriculture Department, measures food insecurity across states and demographic groups. 

The data has been collected every year since the mid-1990s and is widely used by federal, state and local policymakers to make funding decisions for food-assistance programs and to evaluate how well those programs work...