Budgetary Examination of the Investment Potential of the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC): Hearing Before the Committee on the Budget, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session, March 6, 1991, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1991 - 81 pages |
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Allen American children AT&T BARNEY FRANK BellSouth budget Business Roundtable Casey Foundation CHAIRMAN AND CHIEF Chief Executive Officer child poverty rate childhood hunger Children in Need CLENDENIN Committee concerned Congress corporate DANNEMEYER deficit dollar early childhood economic education goals efforts eligible for WIC ESPY fiscal full funding future going GUARINI Honeywell hungry important improve increase infant mortality rate infants and children investment iron deficiency anemia issues large numbers Lawton Chiles live in poverty low birth low birthweight babies Medicaid costs MIKE ESPY million mothers number of children nutrition overall PEASE percent poor children potential pregnancy prenatal care prenatal component PREPARED STATEMENT Primerica priorities problems ready to learn reduce RENIER savings school ready social South spending statistics taxes testimony Thank thing tion track record urge WIC participation WIC Program WIC's WINTERS women WOODSIDE
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Page 45 - This nation cannot continue to compete and prosper in the global arena when more than one-fifth of our children live in poverty and a third grow up in ignorance.
Page 4 - By the year 2000, all children in America will start school ready to learn.
Page 13 - Children will receive the nutrition, physical activity experiences, and health care needed to arrive at school with healthy minds and bodies...
Page 50 - ... WIC is a prevention program that works extremely well. How can we justify failing to proceed ezpeditiously to extend WIC to all women and children who qualify for it? Children born today and in coming years will make up an increasingly large part of the workforce that will sustain our economy ... for much of the first half of the 21st century. Our neglect of these children not only damages them - it is counterproductive for our society.
Page 14 - We must establish on broad and solid foundations a national health service. Here let me say that there is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
Page 34 - Fiscal 1968 might be in excess of a million dollars. We hope that is absolutely incorrect, and we are going to do everything we can to make sure that we do not, in fact, suffer that loss, because that is a loss to us. You must relate that to the loss of the businessmen. We are estimating that our income from sales tax, gross receipts, cigarette tax, alcoholic beverages, and so on, would be in excess of a million dollars.
Page 38 - March 6, 1991, five corporate executives testified before the House Budget Committee in support of a special food program for low-income mothers and children. In a joint statement they said: "We're convinced that WIC- the Special Supplemental...
Page 3 - MARGARET S. WILSON, Chairman of the Board Scarbroughs ROBERT C. WINTERS, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer The Prudential Insurance Company of America RICHARD D. WOOD, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Eli Lilly and Company WILLIAM S. WOODSIDE, Chairman of the Board Sky Chefs, Inc. M. CABELL WOODWARD, JR., Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer ITT Corporation MARTIN B.
Page 45 - To the extent that poverty of children is related to poverty as adults, the quality of our future work force may be affected by the present poverty of our children. And the poverty of our children today may affect our long-term competitiveness with other wealthy countries who tolerate much less child poverty than does the United States.
Page 43 - the health-care equivalent of a triple-A rated investment," the CEOs said full funding of WIC by 1996 is essential if the nation is to achieve the first of the national education goals established...