During this webinar, NWA and the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) provided an update on immigrants’ rights to WIC benefits. The panelists discussed the status of the leaked executive order […]
News media outlets reach thousands, sometimes millions of people a day. Businesses featured in news stories often get boosts in sales or interest without spending any advertising dollars. WIC offices […]
The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) is our country’s premier public health nutrition program. In recent years, WIC caseload has been declining and fewer eligible […]
This webinar presented an opportunity to learn about ongoing efforts to improve food access in New Jersey through healthy corner store programming. Presenters: Karin Mille, NJ DOH Community Health and […]
This webinar focused on three different strategies that document the many significant impacts of WIC program participation. The strategies were: 1. Maximizing the use of WIC EBT data 2. Using […]
The webinar provided an update on the status of the NWA’s national recruitment & retention campaign. Presenter: Hannah Shultz, National WIC Association
Rebates from infant formula manufacturers to State agencies that administer the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) support over one-quarter of all WIC participants. However, concerns have been raised that WIC and its infant formula rebate program may significantly affect the infant formula prices faced by non-WIC consumers. This report presents findings from the most comprehensive national study of infant formula prices at the retail level. For a given set of wholesale prices, WIC and its infant formula rebate program resulted in modest increases in the supermarket price of infant formula, especially in States with a high percentage of WIC formula-fed infants. However, lower-priced infant formulas are available to non-WIC consumers in most areas of the country, and the number of these lower priced alternatives is increasing over time.
Since 1998, Congress has provided funds to ERS to study and evaluate the Nation's domestic food and nutrition assistance programs. ERS has become the premier source of food and nutrition assistance research in the United States, sponsoring over 600 publications on a wide range of topics related to food and nutrition assistance. This report, prepared at the 10-year anniversary of the FANRP program, highlights some of the key research conducted during the program's first decade.
In fiscal 2008, the $4.6 billion of food purchased with vouchers from the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) generated $1.3 billion in farm revenue. Because WIC participants would have purchased some of these foods with their own money in the absence of the program, the net addition to farm revenue from WIC is estimated at $331 million and the net increase in full-time-equivalent farm jobs at 2,640. The study uses an Input-Output Multiplier Model to derive these estimates and assumes that recent revisions in the WIC food packages were implemented in all States in fiscal 2008.
Abstract: One of the most worrisome aspects of the growing tide of obesity in the United States is the high rate of overweight among children. Over one in five young […]
