A new report by the Christian advocacy group Bread for the World says hunger and food insecurity added $160 billion to US health care costs last year. According to the report, as many as 50 million people, one in six Americans, live in hunger or lack adequate access to food. That has devastating health consequences, particularly for children:

David Beckmann (Bread for the World): The infant mortality rate in the United States is way higher than any other country of roughly our income level. It is like a massive terrorist attack.