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by pseudonom- 2785 days ago
> ~30% of her students, from either school, would not eat at all over the weekend. No, not that they would eat Cheetos or drink Coke. They plain-jane went hungry.

Can you help me reconcile that with the data from the USDA as described here? https://blog.givewell.org/2009/11/26/hunger-here-vs-hunger-t...

They describe children in 0.3% of households as skipping a meal almost every month and the number of children that did not eat for at least one day in almost every month is too low to measure.

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Don't know what to tell you. I guess my SO was just that 'lucky'.