Low-Income Rural Households Rely on Child Nutrition Programs
Rural America is home to approximately 6.2 million households with children. Of these households, an estimated 29 percent participate in at least one of the four child nutrition programs; about 20 percent participate in two or more. Rates of participation are higher among rural than suburban households and similar to central cities.
The Carsey Institute۪s Marybeth Mattingly, director of research on vulnerable families, and Barbara Wauchope, director of the Carsey Institute’s evaluation program and a research associate professor at the University of New Hampshire, discuss the importance of child nutrition programs, the barriers to good nutrition in rural areas and why federal nutrition programs are critical to the health of poor rural children and their families. (Recorded November 2, 2010)
How many children in rural America are poor? What does that mean for their access to food?
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Marybeth Mattingly, Carsey Institute director of research on vulnerable families |
Why are child nutrition programs important for rural children?
Marybeth Mattingly, Carsey Institute director of research on vulnerable families
What are the barriers to participation in childhood nutrition programs?
Barbara Wauchope, director of the Carsey Institute’s evaluation program and a research associate professor at the University of New Hampshire
Why do child nutrition programs make a difference for poor rural children?
Barbara Wauchope, director of the Carsey Institute’s evaluation program and a research associate professor at the University of New Hampshire