Families with young children face increased hardship after pandemic relief policies end

by Zaidee Stavely, EdSource July 23, 2023July 21, 2023

Dante Johnson, right, a LAUSD volunteer, distributes meals to Patricia Martinez with her children in her vehicle at Dorsey High School in Los Angeles on March 18, 2020. (Al Seib/Los Angeles Times/Polaris via EdSource)

PANDEMIC-ERA POLICIES like eviction moratoriums, the expanded child tax credit, increased food stamp benefits and free school meals helped decrease hardship for families with young children.

Yet when many of those programs were discontinued, these same families saw an increase in hardship.

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