Dr. Deborah Frank, Children’s Healthwatch Founder and Principal Investigator, was interviewed about the benefit caculation for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). In most of the country SNAP benefit amounts are insufficient.
What Congress and the Media are Missing in the Food Stamp Debate
In an article by Greg Kaufmann, Dr. Deborah Frank, Children’s HealthWatch Founder and Principal Investigator, was quoted as saying “Parents with children with special health care needs are less able to work many hours and have higher out of pocket health care related expenses. That means they are at particularly high risk of food, energy, and housing insecurity so that there is a reciprocal relationship between children’s poor health and poor nutrition.”
