You've structured the question to get us to say yes. Of course, if you give poor people more money, they'll have more money than they had before you gave them some. You're talking about $1,200, and that means $100 a month. I'm talking about deficits that amount to several hundred dollars a month. You're asking if the child care benefit will help their diets. Honestly, I wouldn't want to try to evaluate the impact of such a trivial increase in their income on their dietary intake. It would be impalpable.
The levels of deprivation we're talking about are substantial. These tax credits you're describing are politically attractive, because they're across the board. But honestly, if you want to address these problems, you've got to do the math and figure out how much money people really need to put food on the table. An arbitrary amount that's calculated through some gross population-level thinking doesn't necessarily net the kinds of impacts we need. We're describing serious problems. You're saying resources are always scarce. I want to tell you to show us some leadership. We have a serious problem, and all our data show that the problem is getting worse.