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Data Snapshot: Immigrant Family Well-Being

September 11, 2026

Housing Is a Foundation for Child Health: Evidence, Policy, and What’s at Stake

September 9, 2026

Letter to Healey Administration and Massachusetts Legislature on DTA Investment and Protecting SNAP Access

September 1, 2026

As Texans’ Electricity Costs Soar and Temperatures Rise, a Public Health Crisis Brews

August 27, 2026

Organizational Comment RE: Unaccompanied Children Program Foundational Rule; Sponsor Assessment Update

August 25, 2026

Co-Enrollment in Safety-Net Programs Among Families with Young Children: A Multistate Analysis of Enrollment Gaps, Design and Implementation

August 12, 2026

Parent Perspectives on the Child Tax Credit

August 6, 2026

“I’m Doing My Part, Why Aren’t You Doing Yours?”: A Qualitative Exploration of the Expanded Child Tax Credit Among Mothers with Young Children

August 6, 2026

Comments to CMS on Community Engagement Requirements

July 30, 2026

Efficiency Reimagined: Designing Public Programs That Work for Families and Government

July 23, 2026

Statement on DHS’ Final Public Charge Rule

July 23, 2026

Comments to CMS on State-Directed Payments

July 20, 2026

Written testimony in support of An Act significantly alleviating poverty (H.5085/S.3095)

July 14, 2026

Re: PUBLIC NOTICE: Termination of MassHealth’s “TANF and EAEDC Recipients” 1115 Demonstration Expenditure Authority and the Transition and Phase-Out Plan

July 6, 2026

Pennsylvanian children can’t afford Medicaid cuts

June 24, 2026

Written testimony in support of H.1527/S.2826: An Act relative to the Massachusetts rental voucher program

June 11, 2026

Dropped health insurance affects children

June 9, 2026

Testimony in support of the ENOUGH Act (S.3022/H.5187)

May 20, 2026

Data Snapshot: SNAP’s Pandemic Success Story and its Uncertain Future

May 15, 2026

Data Snapshot: Food Insecurity in the U.S.

May 15, 2026

A pediatrician’s perspective on gun violence and our children

May 11, 2026

CACFP: Preliminary Qualitative Findings

April 30, 2026

Caregiver Incarceration and Incarceration-Related Barriers to SNAP Among Young Children

April 30, 2026

Food Insecurity and SNAP Fact Sheets

April 29, 2026

Food Insecurity and SNAP Fact Sheet – Pennsylvania

April 29, 2026

Food Insecurity and SNAP Fact Sheet – Minnesota

April 29, 2026

Food Insecurity and SNAP Fact Sheet – Arkansas

April 29, 2026

Food Insecurity and SNAP Fact Sheet – Massachusetts

April 29, 2026

Comments to USDA on Opportunities, Challenges, and Emerging Areas in Statistical Data, Analysis, and Research

April 2, 2026

Housing Instability Fact Sheets

March 25, 2026

Housing Instability Fact Sheet – Pennsylvania

March 24, 2026

Housing Instability Fact Sheet – Minnesota

March 24, 2026

Housing Instability Fact Sheet – Arkansas

March 24, 2026

Housing Instability Fact Sheet – Massachusetts

March 24, 2026

Energy Insecurity Prevalence and LIHEAP Participation Fact Sheet – Pennsylvania

March 24, 2026

Energy Insecurity Prevalence and LIHEAP Participation Fact Sheet – Minnesota

March 24, 2026

Energy Insecurity Prevalence and LIHEAP Participation Fact Sheet – Arkansas

March 24, 2026

Energy Insecurity Prevalence and LIHEAP Participation Fact Sheet – Massachusetts

March 24, 2026

Energy Insecurity Prevalence and LIHEAP Participation Fact Sheets

March 24, 2026

Fact Over Fiction: Medicaid, Immigration, and Health Care Access

February 18, 2026

Children’s HealthWatch Child Care and Development Fund NPRM Comment

February 4, 2026

WCCO Interviews Michael Arenson, MD, on Child Food Insecurity

February 3, 2026

Public Health Conversation Starter: In Conversation with Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba

January 28, 2026

Testimony in support of An Act promoting access to counsel and housing stability in Massachusetts (H.1952/S.968)

January 20, 2026

Development and validation of a 1-item very low food security screen

January 19, 2026

Statement on the “Household Food Security in the United States in 2024” Report

January 8, 2026

Testimony in Support of MA Bills H.48 and H.1158/S.737

December 24, 2025

Children’s HealthWatch Public Charge NPRM Comment

December 19, 2025

Paid family leave will let parents pay attention when babies need it most

December 19, 2025

Children of immigrants face enough barriers. DHS must not add more.

December 16, 2025

Testimony in support of S.1681/H.2580: An Act to protect the civil rights and safety of all Massachusetts residents

December 1, 2025

Statement on U.S. Department of Homeland Security Public Charge Proposal

November 21, 2025

Band-Aids on a tornado: SNAP cuts are tearing through Minnesota families

November 14, 2025

Comments to the USDA on the Decision to Discontinue the Food Security in the U.S. Reports

November 4, 2025

Many Questions Remain After Judges Order USDA to Fund SNAP During Shutdown

November 3, 2025

Massachusetts AG sues Trump admin over SNAP benefit cuts

October 28, 2025

Statement on Upcoming Lapse in SNAP Funding

October 24, 2025

Testimony on bills heard by the MA Joint Committee on Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities during the DTA hearing on Sept. 16, 2025

October 18, 2025

As Medicaid Cuts Loom, Here’s What’s at Stake for Families

October 16, 2025

Statement on USDA Termination of Food Insecurity Data Collection

September 23, 2025

US Medicaid and Food Aid Cuts Imperil Vulnerable Children

September 22, 2025

Changing Diapers, Changing Lives: The Health and Economic Impacts of Diaper Benefits

September 22, 2025

Oral Testimony to the MA Committee on Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities on Establishing a Diaper Benefit Program

September 16, 2025

Oral Testimony to the MA Committee on Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities in Support of Bills to Lift Kids Out of Deep Poverty

September 16, 2025

Oral testimony to the MA Committee on Revenue in support of legislation to strengthen family tax credits

September 16, 2025

Statement on US Government Plan to Deport Guatemalan Children

September 3, 2025

Hardship-Free Households Are Associated With Optimal Caregiver and Child Health

August 29, 2025

Children’s HealthWatch Comment on Department of Agriculture Reorganization Plan

August 26, 2025

To help low-income kids with cancer have better treatment outcomes, a researcher tries a different innovation: Cash

August 18, 2025

Children’s HealthWatch Comments to HHS Regarding PRWORA Reinterpretation

August 13, 2025

The Medical Consequences of Starvation

July 31, 2025

The Dignity Dividend: Lessons Learned from Guaranteed Income Pilots in Massachusetts

July 24, 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

AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting

June 25, 2025

Congressional Briefing on SNAP and Child Health: Pediatric Experience on the Frontlines

June 25, 2025

Comments to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Regarding CMS-1833-P

June 10, 2025

Medicaid Food Security Network Summit

May 25, 2025

Bridge Builders Summit

May 25, 2025

National Anti-Hunger Policy Conference

May 25, 2025

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

May 2, 2025

Poverty and Power Screening

April 24, 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

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

February 27, 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

Lessons from the Field: Learning from Community Members about Effective Ways to Organize

January 16, 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

Safeguarding Benefits: Addressing Barriers in Direct Cash and Tax Credit Delivery

November 26, 2024

Linking household members and defining relational networks using routine health data

November 21, 2024

Pediatrics leading the way: co-enrollment as the next step in health-related social needs screening and referral

November 21, 2024

‘There’s No Way Through This but Forward’

November 20, 2024

Statement on the 2024 Election

November 7, 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

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