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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 on OMB Federal Financial Assistance

July 10, 2026

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

January 28, 2026

Evolving food as medicine programs to advance health equity: insights from two decades of practice

December 8, 2025

Statement on 2024 Supplemental Poverty Measure Report

September 10, 2025

Statement on US Government Plan to Deport Guatemalan Children

September 3, 2025

Children’s HealthWatch Awards Dinner in Washington

April 4, 2025

Understanding Relationships between Food Security and Education Attainment: Simulations of the Role of Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Inequity

January 31, 2025

2024 Research Roundup

December 19, 2024

2024 Year in Review

December 19, 2024

2024 Marilyn Meyerhoff Equity Award Announcement

October 24, 2024

2024 Children’s HealthWatch Champion Award Announcement

October 21, 2024

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

March 27, 2024

Overcoming Invisibility

February 29, 2024

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

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

October 5, 2023

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

September 19, 2023

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

Nourishing Futures: Strengthening Child Health Through SNAP

September 6, 2023

Do Housing Affordability and Supply Challenges Need a Justice Lens?

August 25, 2023

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

August 17, 2023

Bringing Healthy Food and a Community Hub to Roxbury

August 3, 2023

Institute for Research on Poverty’s 2023–2025 Extramural Large Grant Awardees

July 31, 2023

Children’s HealthWatch Statement on Threat to 2022 Public Charge Rule

May 18, 2023

Association Between Material Hardship in Families With Young Children and Federal Relief Program Participation by Race and Ethnicity and Maternal Nativity

April 21, 2023

25 Years: How It Started, How It’s Going (Equity Podcast Series Part 1)

March 22, 2023

Data Tells a Story: Here’s Ours

February 16, 2023

Haitian Migrants Face Unique Challenges Finding U.S. Housing

January 17, 2023

Immigrant-Inclusive Policies Promote Child and Family Health

November 16, 2022

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

November 5, 2022

Letter on the Review of Federal Policies That Contribute to Racial and Ethnic Health Inequities

September 30, 2022

Maternal depression and anxiety exacerbate hardships — How to help the mothers in your life

August 11, 2022

Children’s Healthwatch Is Deeply Disappointed Key Provisions to Support Families Are Notably Absent From the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022

August 9, 2022

ʻI didn’t have to worryʼ – How the Child Tax Credit Helped Families Catch Up on Rent and Improved Health

August 5, 2022

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

July 1, 2022

Harness the Power of Your Story: How Storytelling Informs Policy

June 21, 2022

There May Be No Words, But There Are Actions

May 27, 2022

Wednesday, April 27, 2022 – Watch the Recording of our Equity & You Kickoff Webinar

April 13, 2022

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

April 11, 2022

Residents of color disproportionately hit by evictions after moratorium expired, says new report

March 23, 2022

U.S. Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro is 2021 Children’s HealthWatch Champion

November 17, 2021

More than 101,000 New York City public school students faced homelessness last year

November 16, 2021

Housing and Neighborhoods as Root Causes of Child Poverty

November 2, 2021

The Housing Opportunity Gap

September 23, 2021

Filling the Housing Opportunity Gap

September 23, 2021

Closing the Housing Opportunity Gap

September 23, 2021

Closing the Housing Opportunity Gap

September 23, 2021

A Bold Federal Response to Eviction Protects Health and Housing Stability

September 23, 2021

Eviction: A Preventable Cause of Adverse Child and Family Health

September 23, 2021

Written Testimony to the Joint Committee on Ways and Means and the House Committee on Federal Stimulus and Census Oversight

September 22, 2021

Written Testimony to the Massachusetts Joint Committee on Housing

August 12, 2021

Written Testimony to the Massachusetts Joint Committee on Racial Equity, Civil Rights, and Inclusion of their Recommendations to Advance Racial Equity

July 23, 2021

Written Testimony to the Massachusetts Joint Committee on Children, Families, and Persons with Disabilities in Support of the Evaluation of Governmental Services on Children and Families

July 23, 2021

Children’s HealthWatch Comments on Advancing Racial Justice and Equity and Support for Underserved Communities at USDA

July 15, 2021

The money could transform their lives. But thousands of eligible kids may not get the new child tax credit

July 7, 2021

Children’s HealthWatch Response to OMB Request for Information on Methods and Leading Practices for Advancing Equity and Support for Underserved Communities through Government

July 6, 2021

Children’s HealthWatch Statement on Withdrawal of Proposed Revisions by USDA and HUD

June 18, 2021

New Collaboration Targets Key Boston Neighborhoods for Health Equity Initiatives

June 15, 2021

Children’s HealthWatch Submits a Comment to DHS on Identifying Barriers Across USCIS Benefits and Services

May 19, 2021

Challenging Racist Systems, Processes, and Analyses in Social Care

May 3, 2021

Children’s HealthWatch Statement on the American Families Plan

April 29, 2021

Ayanna Pressley, Elizabeth Warren to Headline Forum on Antiracism as Health Policy

April 5, 2021

Podcast: Hunger in America – Part 2

March 28, 2021

Thoughts and Prayers Aren’t Enough: We Need to Stop Deluding Ourselves About Racism

March 23, 2021

Children’s HealthWatch Statement on Recent Attacks on the AAPI Community

March 23, 2021

Podcast: Hunger in America – Part 1

March 14, 2021

Founder Dr. Deborah Frank honored by Massachusetts Medical Society with its Special Award for Excellence in Medical Service

January 4, 2021

A First Look at Preliminary Children’s HealthWatch COVID-19 Survey Data

December 22, 2020

Monday, November 16, 2020 – Wealth Equity is Health Equity: Improving Child & Family Health Through Income Supports

November 16, 2020

Moving Toward a More Equitable and Just Society: A New “What If Project” System Simulation Policy Brief

September 22, 2020

The Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit: Building on Success for Healthy Families

July 29, 2020

It’s Time To Prioritize The Health And Well-Being Of Black Families And Children

June 2, 2020

Access to High-Quality, Affordable Child Care: Strategies to Improve Health

April 27, 2020

Podcast: Health Equity and Housing

February 3, 2020

Maternal place of birth, socioeconomic characteristics, and child health in US-Born Latinx children in Boston

November 25, 2019

Plenary speaker: Rx for homelessness requires solutions grounded in equity

November 20, 2019

Experiences of Racial and Ethnic Discrimination Are Associated with Food Insecurity and Poor Health

November 20, 2019

Recommendations From SNAP Participants to Improve Wages and End Stigma

November 20, 2019

Constructing Invisible Walls through National and Global Policy

July 18, 2019

The Foundation to Thrive: Connecting The Importance of Safe, Stable Homes with the Health and Wellbeing of Families and Children

July 10, 2019

Trends in Food Insecurity and SNAP Participation among Immigrant Families of U.S.-Born Young Children

April 5, 2019

The Road to Hardship-Free: Baltimore Check-Up for Children

October 31, 2018

Mothers’ Adverse Childhood Experiences and Their Young Children’s Development

September 19, 2017

Civil Unrest in the Context of Chronic Community Violence: Impact on Maternal Depressive Symptoms

July 20, 2017

The Earned Income Tax Credit in Massachusetts: Alleviating poverty today, increasing opportunity tomorrow

April 14, 2016

Breastfeeding and Health Outcomes among Citizen Infants of Immigrant Mothers

December 1, 2007

Balancing Acts: Energy Insecurity among Low-Income Babies and Toddlers of Color Increases Food Insecurity and Harmful Health Effects

March 1, 2007

La alimentación y el bienestar de los ciudadanos estadounidenses más jóvenes de madres mexicanas, centroamericanas, y caribeñas

January 1, 2007

The Impact of Food Insecurity on the Development of Young Low-Income Black and Latino Children & Protecting the Health and Nutrition of Young Children of Color: The Impact of Nutrition Assistance and Income Support Programs

May 1, 2006

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