Action Needed Now!
The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) has always enjoyed bipartisan support. But, if Congress fails to provide sufficient funding by the time they go home for the holidays, state and local agencies will have to make severe cuts — thousands of low-income women and children will lose their benefits. If Congress funds WIC at the level proposed by the President, these individuals desperately in need of the nutritious foods provided in the WIC package will be cut from the program. With rising food costs, a growing caseload and frozen funding the state and local agencies that administer WIC will have no choice but to close the door to many of their participants.
WHY knows how needed this program is to hungry and poor Americans. Its National Hunger Hotline (1-800-3-HUNGRY) staff recommends the program to callers everyday. To make sure the program continues to serve every woman and child who is eligible for it, we need your help.
Take Action Now
Click here for the letter from the National WIC Association that you can send as is or modify. Send it to your US Representative and US Senators — particularly those in the Republican Party ASAP — to help save 500,000+ eligible moms and children from being cut from WIC. Click here to use the table to find your state’s projected number to be inserted into the letter. Pass this message on to your friends, family and colleagues to take action. Thank you for protecting WIC for the nation’s low-income, nutritionally at-risk mothers and children.
