Families in the United States are facing a perfect storm. Food, housing, and healthcare costs are increasing faster than wages. Inflation and gas prices are high. Immigrant families are being torn apart. Critical supports that help families meet their basic needs have been drastically scaled back or eliminated with more cuts looming.

Join us for a webinar to analyze the policy choices that are pushing millions of Americans into increasingly precarious conditions. A slate of panelists will unpack the challenges in healthcare, food security, housing and immigration illuminated in the new IPS report, A Perfect Storm: How Federal Policy Changes Are Increasing Economic Insecurity for America’s Families and the alternative path that is possible.

SPEAKERS

• Gina Plata-Nino, Director for SNAP and the Food Action Research Center
• Meredith Dodson, Senior Director of Public Policy at the Coalition on Human Needs
• Jenny McLelland, a mom to a disabled son who depends on Medicaid.
• Layla Sayed, 2026 IPS Henry A. Wallace Fellow

Moderator: Karen Dolan, Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies

Co-sponsored by Food Action Research Center, Coalition on Human Needs, First Focus on Children, Little Lobbyists, and Institute for Policy Studies.