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Changes in Economic Hardships Arising During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Differences by Nativity and Race

Abstract Hardships in early childhood impact health. Few longitudinal studies have examined pandemic-related hardships among families with young children by race/ethnicity or nativity. We used prospective longitudinal data from 1,165 […]

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Ensuring food security and health beyond the Covid-19 public health emergency

Originally posted on Stat News. Expansions to social safety net programs during Covid-19 have been essential for low-income Americans hit hard by the pandemic. But the stabilizing impact of these […]

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Tuesday, September 27, 2022 – Dr. Eddie Ochoa & Tanya Nixon-Silberg at “Equity & You: Raising Anti-Racist Children”

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Children’s advocates want universal free school lunches to continue

Originally posted on The Boston Herald. Advocates are calling on state lawmakers to extend free meals at schools, a program that came into place during the pandemic and is even […]

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Too Many Children Are Still Dying Young Around the World

Originally posted on Scientific Inquirer. Strong health and social systems must come together to support all children Preconception, pregnancy, and infant interventions that address child survival and nutrition have a […]

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Wednesday, February 16, 2022 – Watch the Recording of FindYourFunds’s Webinar: How to Help Families in MA Get Up to Thousands of Federal Dollars with Tax Payments

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As the child tax credit ends, one family navigates a new, familiar reality

Originally posted on The Boston Globe. For six months, direct payments to children changed the household math for many families. Now they’re over. Starting in July, Rebecca Wood’s tight family […]

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The sunsetting of the child tax credit expansion could leave many families without enough food on the table

Originally posted on The Conversation. The discontinuation of the Biden administration’s monthly payments of the child tax credit could leave millions of American families without enough food on the table, according […]

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Advance Child Tax Credits Reduced US Food Insufficiency by 26 Percent

Originally posted on Boston University School of Public Health. January 15 will mark the first time in seven months that the families of more than 61 million children in the […]

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Association of the Implementation of Child Tax Credit Advance Payments With Food Insufficiency in US Households

Key Points Question: Was the introduction of advance payments for the Child Tax Credit associated with food insufficiency in US households? Findings: In this cross-sectional study using repeated surveys of a […]