Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd speaks with Fresno, California, resident Janet Ortigoza, who may soon lose $44 per month in food assistance for her 7-month-old daughter if the government shuts down this weekend.
And O’Dowd gets the big picture of what a shutdown would mean for the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program from Kate Franken, Minnesota WIC director and board chair of the National WIC Association.
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