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Forty percent of Black and Hispanic parents of school-age children are food insecure
Forty percent of Black and Hispanic parents of school-age children are food insecure
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Author(s):
- Gupta, Poonam, author
Gonzalez, Dulce, author
Waxman, Elaine, author - Contributor(s):
- Urban Institute, issuing body.
- Publication:
- Washington, DC : Urban Institute, December 2020
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Black or African American
Child Health
Food Insecurity
Hispanic or Latino
Parents
COVID-19
United States - Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- In September 2020, one in four families with school-age children reported experiencing food insecurity in the prior 30 days; among families where the parents were either Black or Hispanic, the rate was four in ten. As the recession persisted and the White House and Congress failed to agree on additional economic relief, families with school age children also faced uncertainty around in-person school attendance and access to school meals. Fewer than one-third of parents reported that their children were receiving some type of school meals in September, suggesting that efforts to provide meals to children attending school virtually still were not reaching many vulnerable households. Approximately one-third of parents with school-age children reported that they were aware of the new Pandemic-EBT (P-EBT) program, which provides electronic benefits roughly equivalent to the value of meals lost during school closures to eligible families. Among those who had heard of the program, approximately two-thirds indicated that they had received P-EBT benefits. So far, however, these benefits have largely been in response to spring 2020 school closures; most parents have not yet received benefits for the fall 2020 school term. In this brief, we examine food insecurity among families with school-age children six months into the pandemic. Using data from the most recent wave of the Coronavirus Tracking Survey, a nationally representative survey of nonelderly adults conducted September 11–28, 2020, we assess food insecurity in the 30 days before the survey among families with children ages 6 through 18.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY-NC-DC license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (13 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 9918266200806676 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918266200806676