“I can feel the aura: ‘Oh my god, this girl is taking forever,’” said WIC recipient Marquel Davis of Austin, Texas.īeing required to attend WIC advising sessions every one to three months can be a problem for low-income workers. Participants complain of customers “shaming” them in grocery lines, said Sarah Monje, California’s Native American Health Center WIC director. They are pushing for faster changes to an outdated, cumbersome distribution process they say stigmatizes recipients. Poverty experts say the shrinking demand does not reflect less need. “WIC providers are tearing their hair, beating their chests, ‘what are they doing wrong?’” said Laurie True, California WIC Association director. The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, known as WIC, has seen a sharp drop in participation since 2010, unlike food stamps and other anti-poverty programs that ballooned during the 2007-9 recession and the economic recovery that followed, government figures show. A WIC voucher for food at the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) offices is seen at a Salt Lake County health clinic in South Salt Lake City, Utah in this file photo taken October 2, 2013.
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