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WIC Innovates to Support Maternal and Child Health During the Pandemic May 7, 2021, 1:00 PM, Posted by Jamie Bussel As unemployment and food insecurity rates soared, WIC adapted to protect access for the families it serves—but more support is needed. During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Bo-Yee Poon and her children left China, where she had been studying Tai Chi for 16 years, to return home to Vermont. What she thought would be a short stay before returning to her studies turne...

Note: Figures in parenthesis are percentages. Our findings highlight some of the financial and social distresses faced by these entrepreneurs at an individual, household and enterprise level. We acknowledge that our study has the limitations of a phone survey conducted during the lockdown. First, our study suffers from potential selection bias and positively skewed income and closure variables since entrepreneurs with lower household-level stress, or better business performance are likely to r...