A range of federal and state programs provide essential support to families who are struggling to afford the basics, from food assistance like SNAP to working family tax credits like the Child Tax Credit. While these programs today provide vital lifelines to hundreds of thousands of Maryland families, there are often opportunities to strengthen those programs to make them more effective and accessible and to expand them to reach additional families who are currently left out.
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