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Increasing infant mortality — Trump proposed budget

In 1976, Senator Hubert Humphrey hired me to study what has since become the most important federal programme designed to lower the infant mortality rate. Today, 55 per cent of US babies are participants of the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) programme. If President Trump’s budget cuts are successful, WIC’s $6.4 billion annual funding will […]

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