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.
Yale is receiving $265,000 from the U.S. Agriculture Department to study
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