Households using more of the most popular WIC food benefits stay in the program longer, study finds
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Over five decades, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) has become known as the nation’s first “food as medicine” program. Low-income families receiving WIC benefits—which provides nutritious food in designated categories, nutrition education and access to other social services—have fewer premature births and infant deaths, eat higher-quality diets, and are […]