Data & Research
Resource | Research | Assessing/Improving Operations
WIC Participant and Program Characteristics 2010
WIC Participant and Program Characteristics summarizes the demographic characteristics of nationwide participants in April 2010. It includes information on participant income and nutrition risk characteristics, estimates breastfeeding initiation rates for WIC infants, and describes WIC members of migrant farm-worker families.
12/01/2011
Resource | Research | Payment Accuracy and Program Integrity
Direct Certification in the NSLP State Implementation Progress, SY 2010-11 Report to Congress
This report responds to the requirement of PL 110-246 to assess the effectiveness of state and local efforts to directly certify children for free school meals. Under direct certification, children are determined eligible for free school meals without the need for household applications by using data from other means-tested programs.
11/02/2011