September 10, 2026
The Food That Never Gets Scanned
USDA's new SNAP purchase report covers 51,891 households and $875M in grocery spending, and none of the charitable food system. What it can and can't tell your county.
August 11, 2026
What Map the Meal Gap Can and Can't Tell Your County
Map the Meal Gap 2026 is out, and it deserves its citations: roughly 48 million people food insecure in 2024, and nearly 25 million of them earning too much to qualify for federal nutrition assistance. But a county rate cannot say where within the county, or what the response looks like now.
June 25, 2026
Most Food Relief Runs on Assumptions Nobody Wrote Down
Most regions plan food relief on gap estimates that live in people's heads. A quietly impressive statewide map out of Missouri shows what it looks like to write those assumptions down — and why the disciplines behind it, not the map itself, are the part worth copying.
January 30, 2026
A Food Pantry on the Map Doesn't Mean a Family Gets Fed
A peer-reviewed study mapped 34,475 food pantries across the U.S. and found that nearly 1 in 4 neighborhoods have low access to food assistance. The findings reveal why density alone doesn't equal coverage, and what that means for foundations funding food relief.