“During a government shutdown, women suffer,” Democratic Women’s Caucus Chair Teresa Leger Fernandez (D-N.M.) said at a Facebook event. “This shutdown is hurting those most vulnerable: children, ...

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children got a temporary cash infusion to keep it running.

Sound investments that reduce early childhood adversity can strengthen the foundations of physical and mental health, delivering lifelong benefits.[2] Extensive research finds that the ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is infusing $300 million into a key federal nutrition program to keep it running through ...

The federal government shutdown is stretching into a second week with no end in sight. As Democrats and Republicans in ...

In the coming days, a food aid program that helps millions of mothers and young children will likely run out of money.

Washington mothers and their babies will have access to food benefits through the end of the month, even though the federal ...

The Trump administration has provided a $300 million infusion to a food aid program for low-income mothers and children, ...

The USDA recently ended its long-running Household Food Security report, which for decades showed how many families went ...