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Volunteers from the Baltimore Hunger Project pass out food to people in need outside of Padonia International Elementary school on December 4, 2020 in Cockeysville, Maryland. - More and more children are going hungry in the US as it weathers the world's worst coronavirus outbreak, which has killed around 280,000 people and caused a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. Nearly 12 percent of adults said they did not not have enough to eat "sometimes" or "often" last month, according to the Commerce Department, while 10 percent of mothers reported their children under the age of five went hungry to some degree in October and November, a Brookings Institution survey found. (Photo by Olivier DOULIERY / AFP) (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)