What the Census is finding

 Center on Budget & Policy Priorities

• Nearly 24 million adults — 11 percent of all adults — reported that their household sometimes or often didn’t have enough to eat in the last seven days.
• An estimated 15.1 million adults living in rental housing — 1 in 5 adult renters — weren’t caught up on rent.
• More than 80 million adults — 35 percent of all adults — reported it was somewhat or very difficult for their household to cover usual expenses in the last seven days.