Throughout the years, New York City has been affected by food insecurity. Food insecurity is the inability to get access to nutritional foods. This is of great concern because of the vast amount of people that are affected by food insecurity. In New York City, about 14.9% of the people are food insecure, according to the statistics from the NYC Food Policy Food Metrics Report from 2007. One of the major problems is financial instability. Secondly, can contribute to many health issues. Thirdly, lack of government assistance. Due to these reasons, we are looking into finding “What are the most effective ways to combat food insecurity in NYC?”
