WALTHAM, Mass., Oct. 6 (UPI) -- It cost every U.S. citizen $542 in 2010, or a total of $167.5 billion, for the far-reaching consequences of hunger in the nation, researchers calculated.
Donald Shepard, Timothy Martin, John Orwat of Brandeis University and Larry Brown, then on the faculty at of the Harvard School of Public Health said they calculated the direct and indirect cost of adverse health, education and economic productivity outcomes associated with hunger.