Articles Tagged with ''WIC''

The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday advanced a fiscal 2024 spending bill for USDA and FDA that’s funded in line with the caps in the recently enacted debt ceiling agreement and without the $8 billion in funding rescissions that House Republicans are using to fund their version of the legislation.

House Democrats accused Republicans of breaking the debt ceiling agreement by advancing a fiscal 2024 spending bill for USDA and FDA that would cut funding to near FY22 levels while also relying on funding rescissions that have little chance of being enacted.

The USDA Farm Service Agency is reevaluating farm loans to serve as a lender of best opportunity to distressed borrowers. 

In this opinion piece, Dr. Jamila Taylor of the National WIC Association (NWA) discusses the importance of the WIC food package rule review process and why this is not only a historic opportunity to ensure healthy foods make it to tables across the country, but also how WIC food benefits buffer against inflation for financially strapped families.

Senior leadership from the International Dairy Foods Association and National Milk Producers Federation met Tuesday with top officials with USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service to share concerns regarding the agency’s proposed cuts to Women, Infants and Children benefits for milk and dairy purchases.

In this opinion piece, Marshall Matz of OFW Law discusses the possible outcomes from the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health that was held in September.