In Brief: WIC funding
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
WIC funding: House and Senate conferees agree to provide $76 mil. in additional funding for the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), the amount requested by President Clinton to keep WIC operating at its current volume. The WIC supplemental funding is a provision in the Disaster Recovery Act of 1997, which provides disaster aid for flooding in the western U.S. Conference on the bill's other provisions will resume June 4...