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Use Your Voice! Ensure WIC Stays Strong for Milwaukee Families [1]

['Zachary Staszewski']

Date: 2024-02-13  

Our children’s health depends on us, and today I’m reaching out with an important advocacy action for our community to take collectively. The Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program that provides special supplemental nutrition for mothers, infants and families is in jeopardy of not being fully funded for 2024.

WIC has been fully funded with bipartisan support for the past 25 years. However, at current funding levels, it is estimated that WIC will have a shortfall of about $1 billion dollars resulting in approximately two million eligible families being denied benefits this year. For the state of Wisconsin, it is projected that nearly 27,000 eligible families will be unable to receive benefits and placed on a waiting list.

We need your voice.

Congress still needs to determine funding levels for various programs including WIC. The goal of our action is to encourage Congress to fully fund WIC so that families won’t have to go without much needed nutritional support for their young children.

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[1] Url: https://www.hungertaskforce.org/2024/02/13/support-wic/

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