/PRNewswire/ Today, the Texas A&M Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture (IHA) and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs Center on Global Food.
Bipartisan momentum is building to scale up and tweak the Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program (GusNIP) and enhance the programs’ offering of the healthy incentives program first pilots funded at $20 million in the 2008 farm bill.
After decades of bipartisan support for the special supplemental nutrition program Women, Infants and Children, known as WIC, House appropriators approved a dramatic reduction in the fruit and vegetable cash value benefit and adopted lower funding levels that could create a waiting list for WIC recipients.
The House Appropriations Committee this week will takes up an unusually partisan funding bill for the USDA and FDA that highlights some major cuts to spending Republicans would like to make, even as President Joe Biden even as debt ceiling negotiations lurch toward a June deadline.Â
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