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Explore the impact of COVID-19 on households with low income, focusing on hunger, poverty, and health.

Explore the impact of COVID-19 on households with low educational attainment, focusing on hunger, poverty, and health.

Explore the impact of COVID-19 on intersectionality and essential workers, focusing on hunger, poverty, and health.

Explore the impact of COVID-19 on young adults, focusing on hunger, poverty, and health.

Food insecurity is part of a larger feedback cycle between poor health outcomes and poverty. The COVID-19 pandemic has applied unique pressures to these relationships, while food insecurity, poor health outcomes, and poverty simultaneously increase the risk of COVID-19 infection, transmission, and morbidity. Explore the feedback cycle and links.

Explore the impact of COVID-19 on Latinx Communities, focusing on hunger, poverty, and health.

Explore the impact of COVID-19 on American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) Communities, focusing on hunger, poverty, and health.

Explore the impact of COVID-19 on older adults, focusing on hunger, poverty, and health.

Explore the impact of COVID-19 on women, focusing on hunger, poverty, and health.

Differences between CPS-FSS and Pulse data mean that food insecurity measures from 2019 are not directly comparable with food insufficiency measures from 2020. This means that we are likely underestimating the degree of food hardship during the pandemic. Here’s why.

Explore the impact of COVID-19 on Black communities, focusing on hunger, poverty, and health.

A new Food Research & Action Center (FRAC) analysis of U.S. Department of Agriculture Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Quality Control data finds that national participation in SNAP among U.S. citizen children in households with a non-citizen dropped by 22.5 percent — more than 718,000 children — from fiscal years 2018–2019 (latest available data).

Children under six who are enrolled in SNAP in the last month of the school year, or at any point over the covered summer period, are eligible for 2021 summer P-EBT benefits. SNAP-enrolled infants who are born before the end of the covered summer period are also eligible for P-EBT benefits for the entire covered summer period. Explore this one page fact sheet to learn more.

The Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (P-EBT) program provides nutritional resources to families who have lost access to free or reduced-price meals due to school or child care closures. In the American Rescue Plan, passed in March 2021, Congress extended P-EBT to any “covered summer period” that followed a school year when a public health emergency due to COVID-19 had been declared. The program will provide money on a new or existing EBT card to help fill the summer meals gap left by the inability to access meals during the summer. This resource has answers to frequently asked questions regarding P-EBT during summer 2021.

This brief explains how states have provided vital food assistance for noncitizens with legal status who are not eligible for SNAP due to their immigration status.