 They serve tens of millions of people, but they alone cannot solve the problem. If we really want to address food insecurity, we have to look at the problem of poverty and we have to look at the problem of housing. Bleich notes a few strategies that could address these two root causes. The first is extending the expanded child tax credit. It will give more credit to the 19 million kids who currently get partial or no credit because their parents' income is too low.