(B) make the report publicly available on 
the website of the Department; and 
(C) submit such report to Congress. 
(3) QUESTIONS DESCRIBED.—The questions de-
scribed in this paragraph are as follows: 
(A) Was the answer often, sometimes, or 
never true for you in the last 12 months for 
each of the following: 
(i) We worried whether our food 
would run out before we got money to buy 
more. 
(ii) The food that we bought just 
didn’t last and we didn’t have money to 
get more. 
(iii) We couldn’t afford to eat bal-
anced meals. 
(B) In the last 12 months, did you or 
other adults in the household ever cut the size 
of your meals or skip meals because there 
wasn’t enough money for food? 
(C) If the answer is yes with respect to 
subparagraph (B), how often did this happen— 
almost every month, some months but not every 
month, or in only 1 or 2 months? 
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(D) In the last 12 months, did you ever 
eat less than you felt you should because there 
wasn’t enough money for food? 
(E) In the last 12 months, were you ever 
hungry, but didn’t eat, because there wasn’t 
enough money for food? 
(F) In the last 12 months, did you lose 
weight because there wasn’t enough money for 
food? 
(G) In the last 12 months, did you or 
other adults in your household ever not eat for 
a whole day because there wasn’t enough money 
for food? 
(H) If the answer is yes to subparagraph 
(G), how often did this happen—almost every 
month, some months but not every month, or in 
only 1 or 2 months? 
(I) In the case of a household that includes 
children ages 0 to 17, the following additional 
questions: 
(i) Was the answer often, sometimes, 
or never true for you in the last 12 months 
for each of the following: 
(I) We relied on only a few kinds 
of low-cost food to feed our children 
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because we were running out of 
money to buy food. 
(II) We couldn’t feed our chil-
dren a balanced meal, because we 
couldn’t afford that. 
(III) The children were not eat-
ing enough because there wasn’t 
enough money for food. 
(ii) In the last 12 months, did you 
ever cut the size of any of the children’s 
meals because there wasn’t enough money 
for food? 
(iii) In the last 12 months, were the 
children ever hungry because there wasn’t 
enough money for food? 
(iv) In the last 12 months, did any of 
the children ever skip a meal because there 
wasn’t enough money for food? 
(v) If the answer is yes to clause (iv), 
how often did this happen—almost every 
month, some months but not every month, 
or in only 1 or 2 months? 
(vi) In the last 12 months, did any of 
the children ever not eat for a whole day 
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because there wasn’t enough money for 
food? 
(c) FUNDING.— 
(1) APPROPRIATION.—There is appropriated to 
the Secretary of Agriculture such sums as may be 
necessary to carry out this section. 
(2) TRANSFER.—Of the funds appropriated 
under paragraph (1), the Secretary of Agriculture 
shall provide funding for the costs incurred by the 
Census Bureau in conducting the annual food secu-
rity supplement. 
Æ 
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