Baby Formula Shortage Uncaps Weaknesses in WIC System
A Newsy investigation found WIC, a government program that helps low-income parents pay for healthy food, is becoming harder to use.
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A Newsy investigation found WIC, a government program that helps low-income parents pay for healthy food, is becoming harder to use.
Related As an attorney working on school desegregation cases in the South, GeDá Jones Herbert is intimately familiar with inequities and discrimination that Black families face on a regular basis. And when schools began shutting down in-person instruction last March due to the pandemic, she heard from many of her clients. “We knew that [the pandemic] was going to have a huge impact on the lives of our clients and students across the country,” said Herbert, who is based in New Orleans and works primarily on cases in Louisiana and Alabama. “As we were assessing the closures, the things w...