40% of Americans Struggle to Pay for at Least One Basic Need like Food or Rent

From the Food Research and Action Center (http://www.frac.org):

Marketwatch, September 3, 2018

An Urban Institute report on a survey of 7,600 adults last December found that 39.4 percent of adults said their families had trouble meeting at least one basic need (food, health care, housing, or utilities), while 24 percent reported trouble meeting two or more basic needs in 2017, and 14 percent experienced all three hardships. Food insecurity was the most common hardship noted, with 23.3 percent of respondents reporting lack of access to sufficient affordable and nutritious food.

Read more at https://www.marketwatch.com/story/40-of-americans-struggle-to-pay-for-one-basic-need-like-food-housing-or-health-care-2018-08-28.