A large and rapidly expanding body of research has examined causes of household-level food insecurity and hunger. A definitive explanation has not emerged that links State prevalence rates of hunger to State-level characteristics such as poverty, employment, and per capita income. In this article, we examined the effect of State-level economic and demographic characteristics on State prevalence rates of food insecurity and hung er. Using food-security data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Census data on all 50 States and the District of Columbia, we first estimated, by using ordinary least squares regression, the associations of food insecurity and hunger with a small number of ...

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