IFF: Group is working to expand child hunger

I read something disturbing on the Idaho Freedom Foundation website. While researching child hunger, I clicked to this IFF article: “Stopping Yet Another Welfare Program Won’t Starve Children.” This statement is as incorrect as it is horrifying. Government provision of food and financial subsidies has been shown to directly reduce child poverty, hunger and malnutrition.

When children live in poverty, they grow up with inadequate nutrition, problems with housing insecurity and reduced access to educational resources. This in turn affects their development, longterm health and economic potential. It puts them at higher risk for incarceration, ongoing poverty, homelessness, unplanned pregnancy and early death. It is a brutal cycle.