Wednesday, February 27, 2013

The Impact of Sequestration on WIC: Nutrition Benefits for Women and Children At Risk

The Center on Budget Policy Priorities released a report "The Impact of Sequestration on WIC". This report highlight that some 600,000 to 775,00 low-income women and children who are eligible for WIC — the highly effective nutrition program that serves roughly 9 million low- income women and children — will be turned away by the end of the fiscal year if the budget cuts known as “sequestration” take effect as scheduled on March 1.

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