(Relevant) A new data analysis survey from the Washington Post found that around 26 million Americans currently say they don’t have enough to eat. While food insecurity has long loomed large in the U.S., the COVID-19 pandemic has heightened the blight of hunger in the country to new levels. With government relief aid drying up and several programs set to expire at the end of the year, more Americans say they’re going hungry now than at any other point in the pandemic. In fact, more Americans may be going hungry now than at any point since 1998, when the Census Bureau first started collecting comparative data on whether or not households can afford enough food.