WIC funding for the healthiest foods in danger

July 31, 2023 story by CNN:

The House legislation would cut WIC – which serves about 6.6 million women, infants and young children – in two ways. It would reduce funding for fiscal 2024 to $5.5 billion, which would be $185 million less than this fiscal year’s level and $800 million less than the Senate bill would provide.

But it would also slash the program’s enhanced fruit and vegetable benefit, which was initially authorized by the Democrats’ American Rescue Plan Act in 2021 and then renewed with bipartisan support in subsequent appropriations bills. Enrollees would receive between $11 and $15 a month to purchase fresh produce in fiscal 2024, down from $25 to $49 this year.

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