ArticleHealth affairs (Project Hope)2022
Patterns Of Food Security And Dietary Intake During The First Half Of The Child Tax Credit Expansion.
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- Beyond Food Assistance: A Scoping Review Examining Associations of Nonfood Social Safety Net Programs in the United States With Food Insecurity and Nutrition Outcomes.Nutrition reviews · 2025Article
- Expanded Child Tax Credit, Family Health, and Material Hardships.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- More Money, More Questions: How Caregivers Spent the Expanded Child Tax Credit.Children and youth services review · 2025Article
- The expanded Child Tax Credit was associated with improved BMI and metabolic outcomes in low-income children.Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition · 2025Article
- US state-level containment policies not associated with food insecurity changes during the early COVID-19 pandemic: a multilevel analysis.Public health nutrition · 2025Article
- Methods Used to Evaluate the Health Effects of Social Policies: A Systematic Review.Current epidemiology reports · 2025Article
- Nutritional quality of food purchases during the COVID-19 public health crisis: An analysis of geographic disparities in North Carolina.Preventive medicine reports · 2024Article
- Advanced child tax credit payments and national child abuse hotline contacts, 2019-2022.Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention · 2024Article
- Perceived Impacts of the Expanded Child Tax Credit Cessation Based on Family Income Level.Research square · 2024Article
- Food Insecurity and Social Policy: A Comparative Analysis of Welfare State Regimes in 19 Countries.International journal of social determinants of health and health services · 2024Article
- Changes in unhealthy food consumption among vulnerable elementary-aged children in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic: a serial cross-sectional analysis.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Article
- Impact of Climate Change, Food Insecurity, and COVID-19 on the Health of Neonates and Children: A Narrative Review.Indian journal of pediatrics · 2023Review
- Food Insecurity and Diabetes: Overview of Intersections and Potential Dual Solutions.Diabetes care · 2023Review
- Changes in Self-Reported Adult Health and Household Food Security With the 2021 Expanded Child Tax Credit Monthly Payments.JAMA health forum · 2023Article
- Importance of Nutrition Security to CVD Prevention Efforts in the USA.Current atherosclerosis reports · 2023Review
- Association of Expanded Child Tax Credit Payments With Child Abuse and Neglect Emergency Department Visits.JAMA network open · 2023Article
- Food Insufficiency Following Discontinuation of Monthly Child Tax Credit Payments Among Lower-Income US Households.JAMA health forum · 2022Article
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Abstract
Temporary expansion of the Child Tax Credit (CTC) during the COVID-19 pandemic provided additional monthly income for US families, with no restrictions on use, from July through December 2021. This study examined food security and children's dietary intake after three months of expanded CTC payments. Parents completed online surveys before and after three months of CTC payments. Among parents participating in the expansion, food and beverage purchases were the most common use of expanded CTC funds (45.9 percent), particularly in households with very low food security (63.0 percent). From before to midway through the CTC expansion, very low food security decreased from 12.7 percent to 5.6 percent, and simultaneously, food security increased from 57.4 percent to 66.4 percent. The CTC expansion was also associated with decreases in children's consumption of added sugar, sugar-sweetened beverages, and sweetened fruit beverages. No changes were observed in children's intake of other dietary components. Our findings suggest that the expanded CTC payments may have helped lessen food insecurity and supported reductions in children's intake of added sugar in participating households.
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