About 14.6 percent of U.S. households, equal to 49.1 million people, "had difficulty obtaining food for all their members due to a lack of resources" during 2008, up 3.5 percentage from 2007.
"Millions of Americans simply don't have enough money to buy food," said Ross Fraser, spokesman for Feeding America ,a network of more than 200 food banks across the country .
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