That number should piss you off.

The U.S. was by far the leading global agricultural exporter in 2020 with exports valued at $147.9 billion. [0]

And it's not like it's hard to get the food from where it's grown to where it's needed. The US has a navigable waterway system that is smack dab in the middle of both where the food is grown and where it is eaten by the most people. That's not a coincidence.[1]

I'm not playing semantic games about whether the households experiencing food insecurity are 'working poor' 'abject poor' or 'totally fucked poor'. It doesn't matter what you call it, it's a problem that we can solve in this country.

[0]https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/100615/4-cou...

[1]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/Inland_w...