Elizabeth Miglin | April 15, 2021
U.S. Agriculture Secretary and former Iowa Governor, Tom Vilsack announced the USDA’s goals with president Biden’s budget proposal to the House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee on Wednesday. The USDA plans to expand food insecurity and nutrition programs alongside efforts to address racial discrimination and increase rural broadband access.
Last week, Biden revealed his 2022 budget request to Congress which included $27.8 billion for USDA, a $3.8 billion increase from last year. The budget would provide nearly $7 billion for nutritional programs including the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC). Additionally, the USDA plans to relaunch the “Strike Force” program which provided $23.8 billion for 380 countries with persistent poverty established under the Obama Administration, according to the Iowa Capitol Dispatch.
Elizabeth Miglin | April 15, 2021
U.S. Agriculture Secretary and former Iowa Governor, Tom Vilsack announced the USDA’s goals with president Biden’s budget proposal to the House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee on Wednesday. The USDA plans to expand food insecurity and nutrition programs alongside efforts to address racial discrimination and increase rural broadband access.
Last week, Biden revealed his 2022 budget request to Congress which included $27.8 billion for USDA, a $3.8 billion increase from last year. The budget would provide nearly $7 billion for nutritional programs including the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC). Additionally, the USDA plans to relaunch the “Strike Force” program which provided $23.8 billion for 380 countries with persistent poverty established under the Obama Administration, according to the Iowa Capitol Dispatch.
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WIC has proven effective in improving the health of children and mothers. This could be a big year for the program.
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WIC enrollments have been languishing for years. But with a new administration determined to make a dent in poverty, has WIC’s time come?
Since 1974, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) has proven successful among low-income pregnant and postpartum women and kids up to age 5 in mitigating some effects of malnutrition, including anemia, childhood obesity, low birthweight, and school unreadiness. As many as 12,000 WIC clinics serve 6.3 million people across the country, but the program doesn’t have the reach it should: Enrollments among those currently eligible are just above 50 percent and are even lower 42 percent for kids in the 1 to 4 age range.
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack
WASHINGTON Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Wednesday laid out USDA’s goals to expand food insecurity and nutrition programs in the president’s budget request, as well as the agency’s focus on programs to address longtime racial discrimination.
“Normally I would talk to you all about numbers in the budget,” Vilsack, the former governor of Iowa, told members of the House Appropriations panel on agriculture spending. “But these are not normal times and this is certainly not a normal budget hearing.”
The USDA secretary said President Joe Biden’s budget proposal aims to address climate change in agriculture and root out systemic barriers in the agency that have led to discrimination against Black farmers.