Posts in category Food security

Summer EBT - Nutritional, and smart fiscal move

Posted on January 17, 2024 at 7:13 PM by Anne Discher

Making sure low-income families can feed their kids is important whether school is in session or out. The evidence of...

Categories: Family support & well-being, Food security, Health

Tagged As: Poverty, SNAP

Posted on April 3, 2023 at 8:27 PM by Mike Owen

SNAP and Medicaid not only boost low-income families with federal funds, but local and state economies as well. That's one...

Categories: Food security, Health

Tagged As: CHIP, Hawki, Medicaid, SNAP

Posted on December 14, 2020 at 9:40 AM by Anne Discher

A troubling share of Iowa families with children are struggling to put food on the table, pay rent and stay...

Categories: Covid-19, Data, Family support & well-being, Food security, Health, Safety net & work supports

Tagged As: Data, Housing, Mental health

Posted on April 23, 2020 at 2:50 PM by Anne Discher

In the last few weeks I’ve had podcast conversations with colleagues at food pantries around the state (listen to this...

Categories: Covid-19, Food security

Tagged As: Medicaid, Poverty, SNAP