Economist Dr. Eugene Smolensky, Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley, characterizes it as a “first class report… using up to the minute methodology and the latest available data, which finally takes us beyond anecdote, and small and partial studies, to a reliable picture of [senior] hunger nationwide. Tragically, the reliable picture that the study paints is both clear and disturbing. It finds senior hunger to be a national problem of dramatic proportion. Today in America 1 in 9 seniors— an astonishing 5 million people—is at risk of hunger. And the situation is likely to worsen significantly if we do not act.”

The full report can be found here.