Nearly half of American children will at some point during their childhood eat meals paid for by food stamps, according to a study in the American Medical Association's Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine.
And among black children and children living in single-parent households, the percentage rises to about 90 percent, the study says.
And among black children and children living in single-parent households, the percentage rises to about 90 percent, the study says.
American children face the highest levels of poverty and social deprivation among Western developed nations, and the U.S. safety net is the easiest to fall through, the researchers say.