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Saturday, October 22nd, 2022

Food Insufficiency Up 25% Since Manchin, GOP Killed Child Tax Credit Boost

Author:     Jessica Corbett
Source:     Common Dreams
Publication Date:     October 21, 2022
 Link: Food Insufficiency Up 25% Since Manchin, GOP Killed Child Tax Credit Boost
Stephan:   This is a follow-up of an earlier report I ran about the utter uninterest the Republican Party has about nurturing healthy children. As I watch the election campaigns and how Americans are reacting I am amazed and disheartened that American voters don't even seem to be aware of what the Republicans are doing to gut social programs that foster the wellbeing of ordinary Americans. It is astonishing how dim most Americans seem to be about which party is fostering wellbeing and which is not.
Parents and caregivers with the Economic Security Project gather to advocate for the expanded child tax credit before the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health in Washington, D.C. on September 20, 2022.
Credit: Larry French / Getty

A Boston-based research team on Friday reiterated the negative effects of ending the expanded child tax credit by releasing a study that shows a huge jump in U.S. households not having enough food.

“Even brief periods of deprivation during childhood can have lasting impacts.”

The expanded child tax credit (CTC) in the American Rescue Plan gave over 35 million U.S. families up to $300 a month per child until it expired last December, and congressional Republicans and right-wing Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) opposed continuing it.

Published in the journal JAMA Network Open, the new study focuses on food insufficiency, “a marker for economic strain… defined by household lack of enough food to eat in the last seven days.”

Researchers at Boston Medical Center (BMC) and Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) found that ending the monthly payments “was associated with a 25% increase in […]

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