The study compares mothers who are on the program to those who aren't. The children of low-income mothers who benefit from the federal government's Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, ...

Columbiana County WIC provided program participants with $20 vouchers Wednesday to purchase produce from local farms markets. A total of 300 vouchers were distributed. Catalpa Grove Farms and Dillon ...

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The woman in front of me in the supermarket line had grabbed the wrong kind of milk. She was paying with a voucher from the Women, Infants, and Children Program, a form of federal nutrition assistance ...

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) started as a two-year pilot program in 1972 and was made permanent in 1975. As Peter H. Rossi explained in Feeding the ...

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A primary governmental responsibility is the guarantee of an adequate food supply. But with an estimated 20 million Americans going hungry, our U.S. government is failing this elementary test. Worse ...

RICHLAND — Amid the crowds shopping for produce at the Richland Farmers Market on a recent Friday morning, Carolyn Merrell and her mother-in-law Linda Herrera carefully selected corn, tomatoes, onions ...

When the WIC (Women, Infants and Children) program was created in 1974, it was designed to battle the crisis of “underweight and malnourished kids,” says Donna Bister, Vermont’s WIC director. But ...