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People are struggling to feed their children: this is not the time to cut SNAP

July 8, 2025

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

July 7, 2025

Expanded Child Tax Credit, Family Health, and Material Hardships

July 7, 2025

Comments on H.4144, An Act Relative to Energy Affordability, Independence, and Innovation

July 7, 2025

Statement on the Reconciliation Bill Passed by Congress

July 3, 2025

Child Tax Credit Increased Food Security, Stable Housing among Young Children, but Many Eligible Families Didn’t

July 2, 2025

Statement on the Senate-Passed Reconciliation Bill

July 1, 2025

Letter to Conference Committee Regarding VITA Funding in Fiscal Year 26 Budget Negotiations

June 11, 2025

House Passes Partisan Bill to Cut SNAP, Medicaid, and Supports for Children

May 22, 2025

Why Massachusetts women have fewer children and Trump’s $5,000 ‘baby bonus’ won’t help

May 13, 2025

When children get evicted, they lose homes, health, chance at education and a future

May 9, 2025

RFK Jr. is gutting minority health offices across HHS that are key to reducing health disparities

May 2, 2025

Statement on Ending Direct File

April 30, 2025

As the 2025 Tax Season Ends, Volunteers Show There is No Tax Equity Without VITA

April 22, 2025

Statement In Response to the Interim Final Rule “Alien Registration Form and Evidence of Registration”

April 15, 2025

Statement on IRS-DHS Information Sharing Agreement

April 15, 2025

Immigrant Mothers of Young Children Struggle to Juggle Family Needs and their Own Health

March 31, 2025

“But who takes care of the mom?”: The daily experiences of immigrant mothers navigating health in family life

March 19, 2025

Job cuts at USDA in Boston could weaken New England food security

March 7, 2025

Press Briefing: Advocates and Experts Warn Against Proposed Cuts to SNAP

March 7, 2025

Letter to the Massachusetts Congressional Delegation: MA Health Care Institutions & Providers Oppose Cuts to SNAP, Safety Net

March 6, 2025

Testimony in Support of the Protecting Sensitive Locations Act (SB 828/HB 1006)

March 3, 2025

Explaining “Maternal adverse childhood experiences and lifetime experiences of racial discrimination: Associations with current household hardships and intergenerational health”

February 27, 2025

Testimony to the Minnesota State Legislature on Free School Meals

February 13, 2025

Comments to the House Ways and Means Committee on the Need to Expand Family Tax Credits

January 29, 2025

Maternal adverse childhood experiences and lifetime experiences of racial discrimination: Associations with current household hardships and intergenerational health

January 17, 2025

How Mass Deportations Will Separate American Families, Harm Our Armed Forces, and Devastate Our Economy: Statement to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary

January 6, 2025

Food Insecurity and Weight Faltering: US Multisite Analysis of Young Children’s Weight Trajectory

December 19, 2024

2024 Research Roundup

December 19, 2024

2024 Year in Review

December 19, 2024

Children’s HealthWatch To Manage FindYourFunds with Support from the Shah Family Foundation

December 13, 2024

Linking household members and defining relational networks using routine health data

November 21, 2024

‘There’s No Way Through This but Forward’

November 20, 2024

Statement on the 2024 Election

November 7, 2024

2024 Marilyn Meyerhoff Equity Award Announcement

October 24, 2024

2024 Children’s HealthWatch Champion Award Announcement

October 21, 2024

Letter to the House Ways and Means Tax Team: Earned Income Tax Credit

October 21, 2024

Letter to the House Ways and Means Tax Team: Child Tax Credit

October 21, 2024

Letter to the MA Poverty Commission on Policies that Support Children and Families

October 11, 2024

With child poverty on the rise, 2025 offers a key opportunity to expand the Child Tax Credit

September 12, 2024

Direct Rental Assistance Response to Department of House and Urban Development

September 3, 2024

Statement on Changes to EA Shelter in Massachusetts

August 9, 2024

Lost Home, Lost Benefit: Families Who Move Due to Unaffordable Housing Are More Likely to Lose Access to Assistance Programs

August 6, 2024

Senate Fails to Advance Bipartisan Tax Bill

August 5, 2024

Submitted Comments – U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) Draft Recommendation Statement on Food Insecurity: Screening

July 26, 2024

Children’s HealthWatch FY25 Conference Committee Letter

July 16, 2024

Children’s Advocates Welcome Biden Administration’s Actions to Expand Legal Pathways for Undocumented Spouses and Dreamers

June 20, 2024

Prevalence and Correlates of Unstable Housing Among US Children

May 28, 2024

The Farm Bill

May 17, 2024

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

May 13, 2024

Diagnosing the youth mental health crisis? Don’t forget housing and extreme heat

April 29, 2024

Important New WIC Rule

April 24, 2024

Women’s History Month: A Cause for Celebration, A Cause for Concern

March 27, 2024

Immigrant Advocates Call For Tax Credit Equity

March 15, 2024

In Hospitals, Affordable Housing Gets the Long-Term Investor It Needs

March 15, 2024

Explaining “A Short Adverse Experiences Measure Among Mothers of Young Children”

March 7, 2024

A Short Adverse Experiences Measure Among Mothers of Young Children

March 7, 2024

Overcoming Invisibility

February 29, 2024

Association between Child Tax Credit advance payments and food insufficiency in households experiencing economic shocks

February 29, 2024

Permanently Expanding the Child Tax Credit Can Make Generational Change

February 13, 2024

Involving Families in Public Policy Innovation to Reduce Cost-Driven Moves and Related Disruption

February 7, 2024

Moving Because of Unaffordable Housing and Disrupted Social Safety Net Access Among Children

February 7, 2024

Mid-year budget cuts prevent planned increase to MA cash assistance

January 31, 2024

Children’s HealthWatch Statement on Child Tax Credit Agreement

January 17, 2024

An Apple a Day Won’t Even Be Affordable for Children if Critical Program Isn’t Funded

January 11, 2024

WIC Needs Immediate Funding to Protect the Health and Well-Being of Children

January 9, 2024

2023 Year in Review

December 21, 2023

At a hospital’s teaching kitchen, patients get a taste of food as medicine

December 20, 2023

The Rent Relief Act of 2023

December 20, 2023

Mattapan child care center serves parents who work off hours

December 6, 2023

Kids face the greatest risk of eviction of any age group. The consequences can last a lifetime.

November 9, 2023

Remarks from Gloria Cabrera on the impact of expanded family tax credits during the Healthy Families Tax Credits Coalition celebratory event November 8, 2023

November 8, 2023

WIC Needs Immediate Funding to Protect the Health and Well-Being of Children

November 2, 2023

Investments Needed to Strengthen and Protect Safety Net Programs for Child and Family Health as Data Reveal a Rise in Food Insecurity Rates

October 30, 2023

Development and Validation of an Abbreviated Child and Adult Food Security Scale for Use in Clinical and Research Settings in the United States

October 16, 2023

Children’s HealthWatch supports families by addressing food, housing insecurity

October 16, 2023

Senator Bob Casey Jr. (D-PA) Is Children’s HealthWatch’s 2023 Champion

October 5, 2023

Governor Healey Signs First Tax Cuts in More Than 20 Years

October 4, 2023

Children’s HealthWatch Statement on Child Poverty & Averting a Government Shutdown

September 29, 2023

Testimony in support of An Act establishing basic needs assistance for Massachusetts immigrant residents and An Act to lift kids out of deep poverty

September 25, 2023

Subsidized meals in child care tied to healthier kids and families

September 24, 2023

We cut child poverty to historic lows, then let it rebound faster than ever before

September 21, 2023

This Republican senator wants an expanded child tax credit — with work requirements

September 20, 2023

New Study Links Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric to Decline in Preventive Healthcare for Children of Immigrant Mothers

September 19, 2023

Childcare nutrition programs improve health outcomes, food security but are underfunded, researchers argue

September 19, 2023

Power meals: Child care-provided meals are associated with improved child and family health

September 18, 2023

Diaper Pilot Program Aims to Keep Families Healthy, Working

September 18, 2023

Study blames Trump for decline in immigrant well-child healthcare visits

September 18, 2023

Balancing Budgets by Emptying Bellies: WIC Cuts Would Harm Our Youngest Children

September 15, 2023

Trump’s Anti-immigrant Rhetoric, Policies, Contributed to Decline in Preventive Healthcare Visits among Children of Immigrants

September 15, 2023

Without Expanded Child Tax Credit, Families Are Sliding Back Into Poverty

September 14, 2023

‘Policymakers need to do their job too’: Pediatrician’s view on child poverty rate

September 14, 2023

Children’s HealthWatch Submits a Letter In Opposition of Cutting Arkansas’ Income and Corporate Tax (HB1007)

September 12, 2023

Expanding tax credit will make Massachusetts a leader in family policy again

September 5, 2023

Massachusetts FY2024 budget makes key investments in children and families

August 29, 2023

As need grows, it is crucial to address underlying causes of hunger

August 28, 2023

Do Housing Affordability and Supply Challenges Need a Justice Lens?

August 25, 2023

New Poll Shows 77% of Massachusetts Residents Support $600 Child & Family Tax Credit

August 23, 2023

Reduced health care utilization among young children of immigrants after Donald Trump’s election and proposed public charge rule

August 17, 2023

Letter: Massachusetts lawmakers must look beyond interests of wealthy by including $600 Child and Family Tax Credit

August 11, 2023

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