You only need to walk through the aisles of your local grocer to know food inflation is skyrocketing. Millions of American families struggled to put food on their tables before this crisis, and now, disparities in access to healthy foods are becoming even more pervasive and evident. The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children – known as the WIC program – serves as a safeguard for the health of millions of low-income families. WIC provides nutritious foods, information on healthy eating, breastfeeding promotion and support, and health care referrals to 6.4 million women, infants, and children across the country. WIC program participants – pregnant, postpartum, and breastfeeding parents, infants, and children up to age 5 who are at nutritional risk – receive a monthly benefits package that includes allotted quantities of foods alongside a cash value benefit for the purchase of fruits and vegetables. The package format is built to insulate families from the impacts of rising food prices. Except for fruits and vegetables, everything is by quantity. So no matter how much milk costs, no matter how much breakfast cereal costs, you get the same quarts, the same ounces. In the summer of 2021, Congress […]
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Invest The Invisible Impact
K&X Design and Investment Technology, LLC
Invest The Invisible Impact
