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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, October 03, 2024
An estimated 2 million parents and young children could be turned away from the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) as the program faces an anticipated $1 billion shortfall in 2024, according to a new analysis released by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Farm groups are warning Congress that revoking China’s trade status could set off a new trade war that would have serious repercussions for the ag economy.
House Republicans are trying to roll back an increase in fruit and vegetable benefits for women and kids participating in the WIC nutrition program, which has long had strong bipartisan support.
House Republicans proposed a plan Wednesday for raising the federal debt ceiling that would also expand work requirements in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to able-bodied adults as old as 55.
House Republicans are targeting SNAP work requirements as they prepare legislation to raise the debt ceiling, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said in a speech Monday at the New York Stock Exchange.
President-elect Joe Biden has announced he will appoint Janet Yellen to the position of treasury secretary and Jason Resnick has been promoted to senior vice president and general counsel at Western Growers.
