
Food Insecurity
SNAP benefit freeze will leave millions nationwide struggling to pay for food – including 472,711 people in Philadelphia
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October 29, 2025

Housing
At Health Commission summit, housing, economic stability are key to addressing mental health
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October 29, 2025

Food Insecurity
“Stable Homes, Stronger Health” | By The Numbers, A Public Health Podcast presented by Polk County
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October 27, 2025

Food Insecurity
First, the Trump administration cut SNAP benefits. Now it wants to stop measuring food insecurity
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October 9, 2025

Health and Development
To help low-income kids with cancer have better treatment outcomes, a researcher tries a different innovation: Cash
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August 18, 2025

Health Care
Trump administration cuts undocumented immigrants’ access to range of federally funded programs
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July 31, 2025

Legislation
‘You open the fridge – nothing’: renewed threat of US hunger as Trump seeks to cut food aid
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July 7, 2025

Health and Development
RFK Jr. is gutting minority health offices across HHS that are key to reducing health disparities
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May 2, 2025

Health and Development
Immigrant Mothers of Young Children Struggle to Juggle Family Needs and their Own Health
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March 31, 2025

Health and Development
Children’s Advocates Welcome Biden Administration’s Actions to Expand Legal Pathways for Undocumented Spouses and Dreamers
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June 20, 2024

Health and Development
Pediatrician at NIFA housing summit: ‘Health, wealth and housing — you can’t separate them.’
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May 13, 2024

Health and Development
Kids face the greatest risk of eviction of any age group. The consequences can last a lifetime.
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November 9, 2023

Child Care
Childcare nutrition programs improve health outcomes, food security but are underfunded, researchers argue
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September 19, 2023

Child Care
Power meals: Child care-provided meals are associated with improved child and family health
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September 18, 2023

Income and Taxes
Letter: Massachusetts lawmakers must look beyond interests of wealthy by including $600 Child and Family Tax Credit
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August 11, 2023

Income and Taxes
More than 100 state and local organizations call on elected officials to pass a $600 Child and Family Tax Credit
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July 21, 2023

Housing
In record numbers, families without shelter are turning to Massachusetts emergency departments
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December 22, 2022

Food Insecurity
USDA Proposes Science Driven Updates to Foods Provided Through WIC | What They’re Saying
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November 29, 2022

Food Insecurity
Food insufficiency increased in US households by 25% after expiration of Child Tax Credit payments
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October 25, 2022

Health Care
‘Imminent Danger’: Millions set to lose Medicaid, food benefits once public health emergency ends
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