Overview
- ERS’s Food Assistance and Nutrition Research
Program (FANRP) conducts and funds studies and evaluations
of
the WIC program and other USDA domestic food and nutrition assistance
programs.
- The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women,
Infants, and Children, commonly known as the WIC
program, serves to safeguard the health of low-income
women, infants, and children younger than 5 who are at nutritional
risk.
- As the third largest food and nutrition assistance
program, WIC served over 8.7 million participants per
month in fiscal 2008, including almost half of all infants born in
the United States. Federal program costs for WIC exceeded $6.2
billion in fiscal 2008.
- The Food and Nutrition Service administers the WIC program.
Highlights
Economic Research on Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Issues, 2009
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