The Children's Defense Fund is reporting that the administration is suppressing a report on hunger in America: The Children's Defense Fund criticized the U.S. Department of Agriculture for postponing today's scheduled release of the annual report on hunger in America , a delay that will keep crucial information under wraps until after Election Day. Social services officials said they expect the report to indicate that the number of households suffering from "food insecurity" has increased. In the previous annual report, the Agriculture Department found that one in six households with children lacked money for access to enough food to meet basic needs. If the new hunger report were issued as expected today, it would give voters insight into the state of the economy and important food and nutrition trends. It would also deliver solid information to help local and national charities plan for how many people they must feed in the coming year. In a recent survey, more than 90 percent of city governments predicted that the number of requests for emergency food assistance by families with children would increase this year.