13. The Homelessness and hunger population in United States The United States is a part of the high income group nations which consists of 65 countries with a combined population of about 1 billion, less than one sixth of the world’s population. 36.2 million people (including 12.6 million children) are food insecure. This represents more than 1 in 10 households in the United States. As many as 405,000 more Illinoisans—132,000 of them children—are likely to have been pushed into poverty as a result of the recession, according to the Heartland Alliance Mid-America Institute on Poverty's 2009 Report on Illinois Poverty . The projected increase would represent a 27 percent jump in the number of people living in poverty in the state over the past two years. Source : http:// www.bread .org/ http://www.worldhunger.org http://www.heartlansalliances.org