For decades, the United States has invested in programs to bring us closer to a future where all children and families have access to healthy, affordable food. Through programs like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), and school meals, advocates and lawmakers have helped families put food on the table; enabled schools to feed students every day; and provided healthy foods to pregnant and postpartum women and their young children.
These programs have helped to curb poverty, improve health, boost children’s learning, and generate revenue for communities. But now, all that progress is at risk.
The above is an excerpt of an op-ed originally published on Agri-Pulse.
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