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      "title": "Child Nutrition and WIC Programs: Background and Recent Funding",
      "summary": "Federally supported child nutrition programs/initiatives and the Special Supplemental Nutrition\nProgram for Women, Infants, and Children (the WIC program) reach more than 39 million children\nand 2 million lower-income pregnant/ postpartum women. In FY2006, spending on them is\nanticipated to be $18.4 billion, supported by  new appropriations  of a lesser amount\n($17.9 billion). \nThe Administration's FY2007 budget request envisions spending a total of $19.1 billion, with\n new\nappropriations  of $18.8 billion. For FY2007, the House and Senate appropriations bills\n( H.R. 5384 ) call for  spending  $19.2 billion, supported by  new\nappropriations  of $18.6\nbillion in the House and $18.9 billion in the Senate.\n  Child Nutrition Programs.  The  School Lunch and School Breakfast\nprograms  provide cash\nsubsidies for all meals they serve to schools choosing to participate; larger subsidies are granted for\nfree and reduced-price meals offered to lower-income children. The  Child and Adult Care\nFood\nprogram  subsidizes meals/snacks served by child care centers and day care homes; federal\nsubsidy\nrules differ significantly between those provided to centers and those for day care homes. Schools\nand organizations operating programs for children also can receive subsidies for snacks (and, in\nsome cases, meals) served in  after-school and other outside-of-school settings . The\n Summer Food\nService program  subsidizes food service operations by public/private nonprofit sponsors\nvolunteering to operate projects during the summer; all meals/snacks they serve are free. The\n Special Milk program  operates in schools and other venues without a lunch program and\nsubsidizes\nall milk served. All these subsidies are inflation-indexed and are paid only where the meals/snacks\nmeet federal nutrition and other standards. In addition to cash aid, many providers receive  food\ncommodities  from the Agriculture Department, at a set value per meal (and may receive\n\"bonus\" commodities from Department surplus stocks). Grants also are made to help cover\n state\nadministrative expenses . Other significant federal programs/activities include a free fresh fruit\nand\nvegetable program in selected schools, money for a Food Service Management Institute, a small\nnutrition education initiative, activities to improve program integrity, meal quality, food service and\nsafety, and support for local school \"wellness policies.\" Separately, the  WIC\nprogram  provides\nnutrition services (e.g., nutrition education, breastfeeding support) and tailored food packages to\nlower-income pregnant and postpartum women, infants, and children who are judged to be at\nnutritional risk. And a  WIC farmers' market program  offers vouchers to WIC recipients\nfor the\npurchase of fresh fruit and vegetables at farmers' markets.\n These are administered by the Agriculture Department's Food and Nutrition Service and state\neducation, health, social service, and agriculture agencies. They actually are operated, under state\noversight, by over 300,000 local providers (such as schools, child care centers, health clinics). \nFederal payments do not necessarily cover all program costs, and nonfederal support is significant\n(e.g., children's families' school meal payments, state/local contributions).\n This report will be updated as warranted.",
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