Posted on 05/16/2022 8:43:51 PM PDT by bitt
One shocking fact that has come to light as the nation wrestles with a baby formula shortage is that half of U.S. infants receive WIC (federal food assistance).
According to the USDA website, “The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) provides federal grants to states for supplemental foods, health care referrals, and nutrition education for low-income pregnant, breastfeeding, and non-breastfeeding postpartum women, and to infants and children up to age 5 who are found to be at nutritional risk.”
“WIC serves 53 percent of all infants born in the United States,” the USDA proudly tells us.
That one in two American babies is deemed eligible for public assistance is an incredibly distressing third-world level of economic failure. What in the world is going on?
For starters, a disastrous 40% of babies in the United States are now born out of wedlock. In addition, around 39% of marriages will end up in divorce. This makes for a lot of single-parent households — one of the strongest predictors there is for financial struggles.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
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Just saw a WIC billboard, this past weekend.
Had a pic of a pregnant mom making a heart shape on her belly....and, says....
WIC Begins with a Bump.
So, they start them out early....on WIC bennies.
Gynosociety at its best
Too many deadbeat sperm donors aka “daddies”.
No wonder “vasectomy” searches spiked after the “leak”.
Good article—thanks for posting.
Ozzie and Harriet are dead and buried.
We have become Brazil.
Venezuela next stop....
Who is surprised?
The nation has turned third world.
We are never going back.
The US has UBI for everybody but the tax donkeys.
I know someone Medicare/Medicaid who is getting cash and all kinds of free stuff from her “insurance company.” Including groceries, free OTC meds and free rides. I mean stuff she didn’t even ask or apply for, it just appears.
And probably EBT on top of that. She buys steaks and I rarely do.
The pandemic wiped out the economy
A lot of people are struggling
Oh, you think this 50% of all infants in the US, being on WIC welfare program is a result of the PlanDemIc???
Nope....it’s been this way....for YEARS. Wake up, folks.
The link, in this article.....to the USDA page bragging about this number of infants on welfare/WIC....is dated 2013.
https://www.fns.usda.gov/wic/about-wic-glance
Excuse me: 53% is greater than 50%.
Unforuntately...the headline should read "MORE than half..."
One a mathematics minor always a mathematics minor.
If you can’t feed ‘em don’t breed ‘em. Birth control is covered by Medicare and rubbers are free in many places.
Is your friend a minority?
They seem to be the ones who qualify for the most.
A friend of my aunt’s, who is low income and white, went with her hispanic next door neighbor to apply for a particular welfare program.
Same income....same age.....both single....same housing situation....etc.
This friend qualified for $12.00/month.
Her neighbor qualified for $120.00/month.
I believe you meant Medicaid.
Medicare is for us old fogies...
;-)
Corrected.
I think I’ve told this anecdote on here before, but a few years back there a young couple with a baby were ahead of me in the checkout lane at Safeway. They peeled off WIC vouchers and walked out with a big pile of subsidized groceries. I only had a couple items, so I was only a minute or so behind them to the parking lot. Turned out that they were parked next to me... in their Mercedes-Benz SUV.
Thanks. Any woman on Medicaid that produces children only exists in the Weekly World News.
This is ridiculous and sad
The young women I know think nothing of getting pregnant out of Wes lock
How anyone can chose to impose their selfishness on a yet yo be born child is beyond me
Not the reason
Govt. SuperAuthoritarianism
Marriage destroyer
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