Economic hardships have far-reaching implications for families with children, impacting their well-being and development during the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has led to household financial problems following job loss and reduced income. As parents or caregivers face financial difficulties, children...
Emergency supplements will be issued on a SNAP household’s EBT card. SNAP recipients who already received a benefit in March will receive an additional supplement on their EBT card on March 28, 2020. All program rules, including verification of income, are not waived due to this emer...
Budgeting for School Supplies Lesson A lesson for students on budgeting for school supplies, focusing on understanding financial priorities, tracking expenses, and implementing cost-saving strategies. They begin by identifying their financial starting point, recognizing income sources such as allowances, sa...
Participating households receive an electronic benefits transaction (EBT) card that can be used to purchase most groceries items (excluding hot-at-the-point-sale goods), and the amount of benefit varies across households based on the household composition, and net income (i.e. household income ...
Conclusions CO-CSA plus nutrition education for low-income caregivers and their children improved household food security and caregiver attitudes and self-efficacy. Attitude and self-efficacy but not food security effects were maintained post-intervention, indicating both the promise and limitations of ...
In the current study, we aim to understand how residential location is related to the environmental load of household consumption, when differences in income level and household characteristics are kept equal. We explore the spatial variation in CO2 emissions of different consumption clusters in ...