--- title: White House Announces Plan to Make Baby Diapers Affordable description: The White House on Thursday announced a new initiative aimed at making baby diapers more affordable for struggling Americans. canonical: https://time.com/4254339/white-house-diapers-affordable/ author: Melissa Chan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-10T18:49:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-31T09:20:56.073Z article:section: Politics og:title: White House Announces Plan to Make Baby Diapers Affordable og:description: “No family should have to choose between keeping their babies healthy and keeping the lights or heat on" og:url: https://time.com/4254339/white-house-diapers-affordable/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: White House Announces Plan to Make Baby Diapers Affordable twitter:description: “No family should have to choose between keeping their babies healthy and keeping the lights or heat on" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # White House Announces Plan to Make Baby Diapers Affordable > Sponsored content. 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At least one major diaper manufacturer has agreed to help bridge the so-called “diaper divide” that affects nearly one in three families, the White House said in a statement. [Huggies](https://www.huggies.com/Rewards) said it will donate 22 million diapers this year to the National Diaper Bank, a nonprofit that distributes free diapers across the country. The collaboration is also slated to aid the [Covenant House](https://www.covenanthouse.org/), the largest privately funded agency in the U.S. that helps the homeless, according to the White House. “When families can’t afford a healthy number of diapers for their babies, they’re faced with a choice between buying diapers and paying for food, rent, or utilities like heat. That’s a choice that no family should have to make,” the White House statement said. Some of the nation’s poorest families spend about 14% of their income on diapers, which is about $936 per child each year, it said. 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