Dr. Deborah A. Frank, Children’s HealthWatch PI and Founder, was quoted in the Boston Globe on the relationship between food and energy insecurities.
Dr. Frank’s work is discussion in conjunction with findings of the Child Health Impact Working Group: Families with limited incomes often are forced to choose between paying for food and paying for heat; children who are malnourished often live in homes where the heat has been turned off or the fuel bill has gone unpaid.
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