Senator Hillary Clinton Urgest Adding $1 Billion in Emergency Funding for LIHEAP
Clinton Urges Action to Assist Low-Income Households in Coming Winter Months as Energy Prices Reach Record Highs, featuring C-SNAP
Clinton Urges Action to Assist Low-Income Households in Coming Winter Months as Energy Prices Reach Record Highs, featuring C-SNAP
Radio Boston hosted C-SNAP Principal Investigators, Dr. Deborah Frank and Dr. John Cook, in a discussion of rising home energy costs and the health consequences for young children.
Pediatric research shows that food stamps help to buffer children from food insecurity’s harmful effects. Children whose families receive food stamps are 26 percent less likely to be food insecure than eligible children whose families aren’t receiving them. Food stamps buffer families from harmful trade-offs between basic needs.
People who can’t pay their heating bills can apply to the Snohomish County Energy
Assistance office for financial aid, featuring Dr. Deborah A. Frank
Dr. John T. Cook, Children’s HealthWatch Co-Principal Investigator, was quoted in an article about food insecurity and published in the Monitor.
Children’s HealthWatch’s research on the impact of unaffordable household utilities was featured in the Worchester Telegram & Gazette.
An editorial by Dr. Deborah Frank, Children’s HealthWatch Principal Investigator and Founder, was quoted in an article published by the Huffington Post.
Dr. Deborah A. Frank, Children’s HealthWatch Principal Investigator and Founder, co-authored an Op-Ed in The Boston Globe on the relationships between LIHEAP and food security.
Dr. Maureen M. Black, Children’s Health Watch Co-Principal Investigator, was quoted in The Baltimore Sun on failure to thrive.
Children’s HealthWatch PI and Founder Dr. Deborah A. Frank and Co-PI Dr. John T. Cook were quoted in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer about the cost of healthy food.
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