State Minimum Wage and Food Insecurity Among US Households With Children.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Food insecurity among households with children and economic hardship is a persistent US challenge. Federal food assistance programs have been unable to fully address food insecurity, leading to interest in the role other labor and economic policies could play. One relevant state-level policy that has received limited attention is the state minimum wage.

Objective

To assess whether state minimum wage generosity was associated with change in food insecurity among households with children and explore differential policy impacts across sociodemographic groups.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study of a national sample of US households from the Current Population Survey used a 2-way fixed effects modeling approach to test whether increases

SUBMITTER: Winkler MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11950886 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature