Dozens of Washington organizations are pushing Congress to amply fund a key federal nutrition program, warning that a lack of adequate dollars would harm the health and well-being of vulnerable mothers and young children.

Some 60 Washington groups lent their names to a letter addressed to leading U.S. lawmakers earlier this month; it was signed by nearly 390 national, state and local organizations in all.

They support a Senate appropriations bill that would fully fund the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, known as (WIC). The House version, however, would not.

The lower chamber-passed bill would also slash WIC’s vegetable and fruit benefits.

Historically, WIC has been a nonpartisan program and issue, said Claire Lane with the Anti-Hunger & Nutritio

See Full Page