A transcript of this podcast and more information about Travis Smith is available on the website of the Duke World Food Policy Center at https://wfpc.sanford.duke.edu/podcast...

The third largest food assistance program in the United States is the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, or WIC for short. WIC is designed to safeguard the health of lowincome women, infants, and children up to the age of five who are at risk of inadequate nutrition. WIC provides funds for specific foods to supplement diets, information on healthy eating, and referrals to healthcare. However, regardless of school attendance and access to school meals, children age out of the program the month after their fifth birthday. Today, I am talking with the University of Georgia's Travis Smith, an agricultural economist who, along with his coauthor, Pourya Valizedah studied the effects of aging out of WIC on children's diets.