Food insufficiency among U.S. families with children increased by 12% in February after child tax credit payments under a federal Covid-19 relief plan expired, new data show.
Food insufficiency among U.S. families with children increased by 12 percent in February after child tax credit payments under a federal Covid-19 relief plan expired,Food insufficiency had fallen by 26 percent last year, when
The expanded child tax credit, part of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, gave qualifying families“The fact that we saw a significant reduction in food insecurity really speaks to the fact that people were using this to afford basic needs,” said Allison Bovell-Ammon, the director of policy strategy at Children’s HealthWatch.
“Among the immigrant community, in particular, there’s a lot of fear around accessing government programs across the board,” Bovell-Ammon said recently. “There’s also a huge information gap, information potentially not being available in multiple languages and in communities, by trusted community members where people live.”One of those affected by the cutoff is Kristen Olsen, who is raising the youngest of her three sons, George, as a single mother in West Virginia.
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