{"id":738,"date":"2020-03-30T19:23:54","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T00:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/census.missouri.edu\/?p=738"},"modified":"2020-11-25T14:00:22","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T20:00:22","slug":"missouri-childhood-food-insecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/missouri-childhood-food-insecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Insecurity for Missouri&#8217;s Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most significant changes to daily life that we&#8217;ve seen from Missouri&#8217;s response to the Coronavirus is the closure of many public school systems. While no state-level order has been put into action, cities and counties from across Missouri have closed their doors and moved to online education. This, in turn, has brought the topic of childhood food insecurity to the forefront of many discussions across Missouri.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/msdis.maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/MapSeries\/index.html?appid=267dfa2632d0454ba81bf9d723fc7332\">This web map<\/a>, designed by the <a href=\"http:\/\/msdis.missouri.edu\">Missouri Spatial Data Information Service<\/a> (MSDIS), illustrates the percentage of children, by county, who are faced with such a challenge. With schools now closed for an unknown amount of time, it is more important than ever to keep the reality of childhood hunger in mind.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/msdis.maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/MapSeries\/index.html?appid=267dfa2632d0454ba81bf9d723fc7332\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-739\" src=\"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/food_insecurity_20200330.png\" alt=\"Missouri childhood food insecurity\" width=\"863\" height=\"637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/food_insecurity_20200330.png 863w, https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/food_insecurity_20200330-300x221.png 300w, https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/food_insecurity_20200330-768x567.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 863px) 100vw, 863px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Missouri Census Data Center frequently works with <a href=\"http:\/\/msdis.missouri.edu\">MSDIS<\/a> on mapping and data projects. MSDIS is a spatial data retrieval and archival system offering many mapping resources, primarily focused on the state of Missouri.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most significant changes to daily life that we&#8217;ve seen from Missouri&#8217;s response to the Coronavirus is the closure of many public school systems. While no state-level order has been put into action, cities and counties from across Missouri have closed their doors and moved to online education. This, in turn, has brought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,52,29,22],"tags":[49,88],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-map-of-the-month","category-missouri","category-news","tag-children","tag-food"],"wps_subtitle":"Map of the Month","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":811,"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions\/811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}