{
  "id": 5332743,
  "title": "Assistance needed in Aisle 1: What Missouri WIC families face",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/assistance-needed-in-aisle-1-what-missouri-wic-families-face",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-03T12:40:05.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Medical Xpress",
    "slug": "medical-xpress",
    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-aisle-missouri-wic-families.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children—better known as WIC—reaches an extraordinary share of American families. An estimated 41% of all U.S. infants participated in the federal nutrition program in fiscal year 2025, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}