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Yale, Simmons get grants to study food programs - Boston.com

Yale, Simmons get grants to study food programs - Boston.com

Yale, Simmons get grants to study food programs

October 2, 2010
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NEW HAVEN, Conn.—Yale University and Boston's Simmons College are being awarded federal grants to research government-funded food and nutrition assistance programs.

Those programs include the former food stamp program now known as SNAP -- the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program -- and the related program WIC, which stands for Women, Infants and Children.