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Children’s HealthWatch joined the Make Hunger History rally at the Massachusetts State House on October 28th, where Attorney General Andrea Campbell announced a 26-state lawsuit against the USDA demanding they release November SNAP benefits to states. Our Co-Lead Principal Investigator, Dr. Diana Cutts, gave remarks on the impact a lapse in benefits would have on child health.
“I have cared for children born this year whose hearts will beat into the next century. Their futures are shaped right now by what we do, and what we fail to do, in their earliest days. We owe them something better than preventable harm. We owe them food, not excuses.”