Rebecca Hasdell

Demand for food aid has soared during the pandemic. Joe Raedle/Getty Images

August 3, 2020

Millions of America’s working poor may lose out on key anti‑poverty tax credit because of the pandemic

Rebecca Hasdell, Stanford University; Alice Milivinti, Stanford University, and David Rehkopf, Stanford University

The earned income tax credit lifts around 6 million of the working poor out of poverty every year, but with the economy hammered by COVID-19, many might not get the benefit they need.

Various vegetables are on display at the Jean Talon Market in Montreal as the new Canada Food Guide was unveiled. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson

February 1, 2019

In defence of Canada’s Food Guide

Catherine L. Mah, Dalhousie University; J. Nicole Arsenault; Nathan Taylor, Dalhousie University, and Rebecca Hasdell, Dalhousie University

Canada’s Food Guide makes nutrition recommendations. But the revamped guide does much more. It directs us to consider the broader set of circumstances —the social determinants —of how we eat.

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