Claim Regarding High WIC Administrative Costs Is False: "The 2012 agriculture appropriations bill that the House Appropriations Committee approved on May 31 — and the full House is scheduled to take up June 14 — includes large cuts in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) that would force the program to turn away 200,000 to 350,000 eligible low-income women and children next year. [1] One of the Committee's justifications for this cut is its claim that over 40 percent of WIC expenditures go for …"
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