By Food Research & Action Center and Think Babies, December 2019
These fact sheets provide national and state-specific rates of hunger and poverty experienced by infants and toddlers, and highlight that too many young children in our nation experience food insecurity and poverty and do not get the nutrition they need. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Strong federal nutrition programs such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), and the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) support healthy development in the early years and beyond.
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