Define food insecurity and explain the programs designed to address food insecurity.

What will be an ideal response?

Administrators recognize that low-income families experience difficulties in meeting their basic needs. Programs that use the Health and Human Services poverty guidelines as the basis for determining eligibility include the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the National School Lunch Program. These programs target the problem of food insecurity, the situation in which people have limited or uncertain ability to obtain, in socially acceptable ways, enough nutritious food to sustain a healthy and active life.

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Holders of political office in the United States today are usually

A. representative of the general public. B. evenly divided between men and women. C. white and male. D. younger than the candidates elected in the 1800s. E. Roman Catholics.

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In which system(s) is the government responsible to the president?

A. in a parliamentary regime B. in a presidential regime C. in a semi-presidential regime D. all of these E. only (A) and (C) F. only (B) and (C)

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