The poverty line is a single threshold. Food insecurity is a gradient that reaches well into the middle of the income distribution. Move the levers to see where a household's margin runs out, and how few households need to lose theirs to move the national rate.
Share of each quintile that newly becomes food insecure, on top of today's 24.2%.
| Added points | |
| Equivalent quintiles' worth | |
| Points to 35% | 10.8 |
| Points to 40% | 15.8 |