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Data Snapshot: Immigrant Family Well-Being

September 11, 2026

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

August 12, 2026

Comments to CMS on Community Engagement Requirements

July 30, 2026

Comments to CMS on State-Directed Payments

July 20, 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

Dropped health insurance affects children

June 9, 2026

Cuts to safety net programs will hurt the youngest Minnesotans

November 18, 2025

Statement on Congressional Failure to Extend Health Care Subsidies for 22 Million People

November 14, 2025

Statement on US Government Shutdown

October 1, 2025

US Medicaid and Food Aid Cuts Imperil Vulnerable Children

September 22, 2025

Statement on 2024 Supplemental Poverty Measure Report

September 10, 2025

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

August 29, 2025

Written testimony in support of the MA Bill An Act ensuring equitable health coverage for children (H.1403/S.855)

August 4, 2025

Trump administration cuts undocumented immigrants’ access to range of federally funded programs

July 31, 2025

The Health and Educational Costs Related to Food Insecurity

June 26, 2025

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

June 10, 2025

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

May 2, 2025

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

September 18, 2023

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

September 15, 2023

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

August 17, 2023

‘Imminent Danger’: Millions set to lose Medicaid, food benefits once public health emergency ends

October 20, 2022

Statement on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization Ruling

July 1, 2022

Comments in support of ‘Affordability of Employer Coverage for Family Members of Employees,’ proposed rule REG-114339-21

June 6, 2022

Safety Net Hospitals: Why BIPOC Wealth Creation is Needed to Achieve Health

April 11, 2022

Written Testimony to the Massachusetts Joint Committee on Health Care Financing in Support of Closing the SNAP Gap and Expanding Access to MassHealth

July 23, 2021

Hospitals Invest in Affordable Housing in Bid to Increase Patient Health

March 18, 2020

Should Physicians ‘Prescribe’ Housing for the Homeless?

February 27, 2020

Podcast: How Hospital and Housing Partnerships Can Heal Communities

February 1, 2020

Medicaid Doesn’t Pay For Housing. Here’s What It Can Do To Help Meet Enrollees’ Social Needs

January 21, 2020

The Hidden Health Costs of Eviction

January 14, 2020

A Doctor Retires, but Continues the Fight

December 23, 2019

Cutting 700,000 Americans from SNAP will increase health costs

December 16, 2019

Promoting Caregiver and Child Health Through Housing and Stability Screening in Clinical Settings

March 26, 2019

Affordable Health Care Keeps Children and Families Healthy

October 24, 2018

Balancing Act: Countering High Health Care Costs to Promote Healthy Arkansas Families and Children

October 24, 2018

Intersection of Health and Housing Webinar

October 4, 2016

The $1.2 Billion Child Health Dividend

May 23, 2016

Food is Medicine: Promoting Food Security in Health Care and Community Settings

May 6, 2016

Housing as a Health Care Investment: Affordable Housing Supports Children’s Health

April 1, 2016

Cultivating Healthy Communities: Lessons from the Field on Addressing Food Insecurity in Health Care Settings

February 26, 2016

Hunger and Health: Connecting Patients to Food Assistance

June 29, 2015

Social Determinants of Health: Emerging Strategies for an Evolving Healthcare System

October 28, 2014

Food Insecurity & WIC/SNAP Participation on Obesity Risk among Young Children

June 5, 2014

How MLP stocks the Pharmacy for Social Determinants of Health Interventions

May 16, 2014

The Hunger Vital Sign: A New Standard of Care for Preventive Health

May 16, 2014

Food Insecurity: How to Ask, What to Do!

November 26, 2013

Risk and Protective Factors Associated with Prevalence of VLFS in Children among Children of Foreign-Born Mothers

August 29, 2013

Health Care on the Ground: Establishing the Link Between Poverty and Health Care

July 10, 2012

Healthcare cost “trade-offs” with basic needs: Impact on maternal and child health in five cities

November 8, 2010

Health Care Costs, Child Health and Development, and Household Expense Trade-offs

May 2, 2010

Affordable Health Care Keeps Children and Families Healthy

July 1, 2009

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