Policy Recommendations

WIC and Medicaid Collaboration Landscape Toolkit

While Medicaid historically has reached most eligible children and parents, WIC reaches less than half of eligible pregnant people and toddlers and only 37 percent of WIC-eligible Medicaid enrollees. State […]

WIC Provisions in the Healthy Meals, Healthy Kids Act

Recently, Chairman Bobby Scott (D-VA) of the House Education and Labor Committee introduced the Healthy Meals, Healthy Kids Act – the first Child Nutrition Reauthorization bill in more than six years! This […]

Review of WIC Food Packages: Improving Balance and Choice: Final Report

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) began 40 years ago as a pilot program and has since grown to serve over 8 million pregnant women, […]

Striking the Balance: Unlocking Remote WIC Services After COVID-19

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) rapidly innovated to provide remote services via video conferencing, telephone, and online platforms. These efforts, […]

WIC’s Fruit and Vegetable Bump: Building the Foundation for Healthier Children

Since spring 2021, WIC has enhanced monthly fruit and vegetable benefits for nearly 5 million young children and women. This science-based increase, sustained in fiscal year 2022 and 2023 appropriations, […]

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Current and Proposed Restricted Food Expenditures

Abstract Introduction: Between 2000 and 2017, a total of 23 states proposed legislation to further restrict Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) purchases. In the absence of a pilot program, the […]