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Promoting Caregiver and Child Health Through Housing and Stability Screening in Clinical Settings
Within the health care sector, researchers, clinicians, and payers increasingly recognize the importance of the social determinants of health for improving maternal and child health. The article focuses on existing and emerging approaches to screening families for unstable housing circumstances. The authors describe how housing stability screening helps health care providers to better understand risks […]
Welfare Cap On Kids Needs To Go
Originally posted by The Boston Globe as a Letter to the Editor. Kudos for taking a stand in your editorial “Cap on kids a failed welfare experience” (March 7). Massachusetts — it is embarrassing to say — is only one in 17 states that still has a similar welfare policy discriminating against children’s rights. This […]
As affordable housing crisis worsens, Trump proposes more cuts
Originally posted on Curbed. The cost of fixing the nation’s widening affordable housing shortage measures in the billions of dollars. But if the healthcare costs that come with this lack of housing security are factored in, replenishing and expanding our low-income housing stock becomes an even better investment. During a press call about The Gap—the National […]
Trump’s housing budget leaves poorest out in the cold, advocates say
Originally published on Reuters. WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A decade after the housing bubble burst in the United States, affordable homes are available to as little as 20 percent of the poorest families that need them in some states, according to a report published by housing advocates on Thursday. That national shortfall, despite showing […]
Dr. Eduardo Ochoa’s testimony before the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human Services
On March 12, 2019, Dr. Ochoa testified before the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human Services for their “Growing a Healthy Next Generation: Examining Federal Child Nutrition Programs” hearing. Click this link for more information on the hearing and to watch Dr. Ochoa’s testimony.
House begins child nutrition reauthorization, but no schedule yet
Originally publihsed by The Hagstrom Report. The House Education & Labor Committee began the process of reauthorizing the child nutrition programs today, but House Education & Labor Chairman Bobby Scott, D-Va., declined to say how soon the committee would move forward with a bill. After a Civil Rights and Human Services Subcommittee hearing today, Scott […]
Cap on kids was a failed welfare experiment
Originally published on the Boston Globe. A generation-long experiment that capped family welfare benefits, by penalizing those who gave birth while on public assistance, is at long last headed for the scrap heap of bad ideas in Massachusetts. The day can’t come soon enough. Repeal of the so-called “cap on kids” has been kicking around […]
Policy Prescriptions for Health: Baltimore’s “Checkup” Shows Hardship-Free Kids are Healthier Kids
Originally published on FRAC’s ResearchWire newsletter. After the holidays, people tend to do two things: make New Year’s resolutions and schedule an appointment for their annual checkup. Checkup appointments not only look at the current status of a patient’s health, but also provide an opportunity for clinicians to advise a patient on how to maintain […]