The ongoing federal government shutdown has caused funding for the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) nutrition program and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, also called food stamps) to be suspended. A Center for Immigration Studies analysis of the 2024 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) shows 47 percent of households headed by non-citizens with children under age 6, the target population for WIC, use at least one of these two complementary programs. These results indicate that immigrant communities are going to be hard hit if the shutdown continues. The results also are a reminder that once low-income immigrants settle in the country, it is very difficult to prevent their use of the welfare system.
Many immigrants have modest levels of education and low incomes, so suspension of WIC and SNAP will impact a large share of this population. This situation also raises important policy questions, including whether it makes sense to have an immigration system that allows in so many people who turn to taxpayers to support their children?
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