Editing Food and Nutrition Service (section)

==History==
Several FNS programs pre-date the creation of the agency and trace their roots back to Depression-era programs.<ref name="History FNS">{{cite web|title=History of FNS|url=http://www.fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/HISTORY%20OF%20FNS.pdf|website=USDA Food and Nutrition Service|access-date=16 November 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160912141202/http://www.fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/HISTORY%20OF%20FNS.pdf|archive-date=12 September 2016}}</ref>
FNS was established on August 8, 1969 as an agency of the [[United States Department of Agriculture]] (USDA). The first administrator was [[Edward J. Hekman]], former president of the [[Keebler Company]], who served until the end of the [[Presidency of Gerald Ford|Ford administration]].<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |title=Edward Hekman, Official Of Biscuit Firm, USDA |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1980/03/20/edward-hekman-official-of-biscuit-firm-usda/00cee9e3-e398-4347-8cbb-5f502a65e31c/ |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=1980-03-20 |access-date=2022-05-28}}</ref> 

In 2018, 11.1% of the US population were deemed as being 'food insecure'.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/food-security-in-the-us/key-statistics-graphics.aspx|title=USDA ERS - Key Statistics & Graphics|website=www.ers.usda.gov|access-date=2019-10-09}}</ref> This is a 0.07% decrease from 2017. Food insecurity is deemed as a household not having enough resources or insufficient funds to provide for everyone in their family. This equates to 37.2 million people affected by food insecurity. Non-white ethnicity groups are most impacted, while groups such as poverty stricken (with an [[income-to-poverty]] ratio under 1.00) and single women with children lead with higher percentages of households affected. States with an affected food security average of 15% or more that were polled within 2016-2018 are New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia, and North Carolina.