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Thursday, February 7, 2013
8 Programs That Have Already Faced Devastating Budget Cuts (And Could Be In For More)
8 Programs That Have Already Faced Devastating Budget Cuts (And Could Be In For More): Women, Infants, and Children programs: The WIC program helps low-income women who are pregnant or have infant children up to age five. “If the same rate of growth that the discretionary budget caps permit through 2022 had been used to determine WIC funding over the last eight years, some 970,000 women, infants, and children would not have been able to receive much-needed supplemental foods this year,” according to the report.