The WIC Program: Background, Trends, and Economic Issues, 2015 Edition

Victor Oliveira ; Elizabeth Frazão

United States Department of Agriculture

关键词: Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women;    Infants;    and Children;    WIC;    spillover effects;    geographic distribution;    economic conditions;    infant formula rebates;    price insensitivity;    equity issues;   

RP-ID  :  EIB-134

学科分类：农业科学（综合）

美国|英语

来源: United States Department of Agriculture Publications

【 摘 要 】

WIC provides supplemental food, nutrition education, and referrals to health care and other social services to low-income, nutritionally at-risk women, infants, and children up to 5 years of age. This report explains how WIC works, examines program trends, describes some of the lesser known effects of WIC, and discusses some of the major economic issues facing the program.