Food Insufficiency Up 25% Since Machin, GOP Killed Child Tax Credit Boost
A Boston-based research team on Friday released a study showing a huge jump in U.S. households not having enough food.
The study, published in the journal JAMA Network Open, focuses on food insufficiency.
Researchers found ending the monthly payments “was associated with a 25% increase in household food insufficiency by early July 2022.”
The group reiterated the negative effects of ending the expanded child tax credit in the 2021 American Rescue Plan.
That gave more than 35 million U.S. families up to $300 a month per child until it expired last December.
Congressional Republicans and right-wing Sen. Joe Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat, opposed continuing the credit.
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