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The 12% is close to the USDA ERS survey finding that 10.5% U.S. households were food insecure at some time during 2020.

That might be a place to begin investigating the difference between your lived experience and more systematic data collection efforts.

https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/fo...