Psychology Today

Food Insecurity Harms Child Development

This week, more than 42 million Americans, including 16 million children, are set to lose their monthly food benefits as part of the U.S. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Many of ...
The Conversation

SNAP benefits have been cut and disrupted – causing more kids to go without enough healthy food and harming child development

Jenalee Doom receives research funding from the National Institutes of Health. About 4 in 10 of the more than 42 million Americans who get Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits are ...
WWLP-22News

Youth artists use their art to spark conversations about addressing child food insecurity

LONGMEADOW, Mass. (WWLP)- As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. And the artwork by our local youth speaks volumes about a pressing issue — child food insecurity. These artists are ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Measuring Food Insecurity and Hunger: Phase 1 Report

Prior to the development of the food security measure, there were widely varying estimates of the prevalence of hunger or lack of access to food and little consensus over which measure was most ...