Those figures for the US are wildly misleading. If they were even close to being true, there would have to be a tremendously large number of people starving or on the borderline in the inner cities. I have no experience or knowledge of that.

But I know it's not true of the hinterlands, or of the vast majority across the country.

40% of homeless people are children and families?
25% of children in the US live below the poverty line?
25% of children are hungry or at the risk of being hungry?

It's just not true.