'Even brief disruptions in access to food can have lasting consequences,' wrote JuliaRaifman and AllisonBovell in a new analysis of worsening hunger among U.S. families.
It's not too late, Raifman and Bovell-Ammon stressed, for Manchin and the GOP to change course.
"As Congress turns its attention to the next reconciliation package, there is an opportunity to reinstate the expanded CTC monthly payments," the pair wrote."Amidst continued inflation, rising food insufficiency in households with children, and the Covid-19 pandemic continuing to affect, continuation of the advance CTC payments could help children avoid food insufficiency, with immediate and lifelong personal and societal benefits.
"The most recent wave of HPS data," Raifman and Bovell-Ammon noted,"show that food insufficiency is concentrated in the lowest-income households with children." "Implementing an expanded CTC without exclusions due to work or immigration status will best reach children in families with the greatest need, to the benefit of all children and society," they added."While some policymakers have considered work requirements to receive CTC benefits, such requirements carry an
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