What can be done to protect young childrens health and development?
• Reduce food insecurity. By reducing the prevalence or severity of food insecurity, food stamps, WIC and other nutrition assistance programs promise to reduce child hospitalization and health care costs. By reducing the prevalence or severity of food insecurity, food stamps, WIC and other nutrition assistance programs promise to reduce child hospitalization, poor child health, and developmental delay, thereby potentially reducing health care and special/remedial education costs. To read more about this, click here. • Broaden eligibility for nutrition assistance programs. Reaching vulnerable populations, such as families on the cusp of eligibility and legal immigrant families, could help to decrease poor health, growth and developmental risk for young children from low-income families who are disproportionately affected by these problems. • Increase benefits for the Food Stamp Program. The benefit calculation is outdated and the value of benefits erode each year. • Children’s HealthWat
