I have linked to an article from the CATO institute which questions the common statistic that 10% of Americans are going hungry.

The author suggests that perhaps 1% would be more fair. Even that seems high to me, these are just survey results after all. There might be a margin of error greater than 1%. And I just read over the survey. There weren't any questions that asked about household income, and there weren't any options for anything like: "I qualify for food stamps but just haven't bothered to sign up" or even "My children don't get enough to eat because I spent all my money on cigarettes"

It really burns me that some liars even claim that 20% of all children are going to bed hungry every night. I wish I could find a recording of their shameful radio commercial that pushed that particular lie.