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A survey conducted by public health researchers at Johns Hopkins find the Navajo Nation in Arizona has the highest food insecurity rate reported to date in the U.S.
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A survey conducted by public health researchers at Johns Hopkins find the Navajo Nation in Arizona has the highest food insecurity rate reported to date in the U.S.

One out of every five people on the Navajo Nation in Arizona don't know where their next meal is coming from.

That's the finding from a survey conducted by public health researchers at Johns Hopkins.

They say it's the highest rate reported to date in the U.S.

Scientists call this "food insecurity."

A community on the western edge of the reservation has just gotten a grant to help.

From the Changing America Desk in Flagstaff,

reports.