Somebody needs to check and see what she’s doing with her food stamps and, undoubtedly WIC. Young children of this age are not that expensive to feed and you get the same amount of food stamps if your kid is 16 or 16 months, plus qualifying for WIC is fairly easy and they give you tons of food. I knew people who received food stamps that would buy really expensive foods when they got them and then had nothing left the last two weeks of the month.
Also, if she breastfed her babies she’d save herself (and the taxpayer) oodles of money in formula bills.
From the USDA website re WIC:
The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children - better known as the WIC Program - serves to safeguard the health of low-income women, infants, & children up to age 5 who are at nutritional risk by providing nutritious foods to supplement diets, information on healthy eating, and referrals to health care..
There's absolutely NO reason in this country for these children to be malnourished. If these mothers are already on welfare, I don't see how they wouldn't also be on WIC.