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Many qualifying families are not receiving WIC. NCDHH hopes to fix that.

By Leoneda Inge,

Published January 23, 2024 at 11:34 AM EST

In North Carolina, about 1.2 million people are experiencing food insecurity. Nearly 400,000 of those individuals are children. That’s one in six children facing hunger.
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is committed to decreasing the state’s food insecurity rate from 10.9 percent to 10 percent by December 2024. And one of the department’s areas of focus is in connecting more families with children under the age of 5 to WIC benefits. To learn more about the program, visit the state's WIC program page.

Guest

Mary Anne Burghardt, Assistant Director of the Division of Child and Family Well-Being and State Director of WIC

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Leoneda Inge

Leoneda Inge is the co-host of WUNC's "Due South." Leoneda has been a radio journalist for more than 30 years, spending most of her career at WUNC as the Race and Southern Culture reporter. Leoneda’s work includes stories of race, slavery, memory and monuments. She has won "Gracie" awards, an Alfred I. duPont Award and several awards from the Radio, Television, Digital News Association (RTDNA). In 2017, Leoneda was named "Journalist of Distinction" by the National Association of Black Journalists.

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Stacia Brown

Stacia L. Brown is a writer and audio storyteller who has worked in public media since 2016, when she partnered with the Association of Independents in Radio and Baltimore's WEAA 88.9 to create The Rise of Charm City, a narrative podcast that centered community oral histories. She has worked for WAMU’s daily news radio program, 1A, as well as WUNC’s The State of Things. Stacia was a producer for WUNC's award-winning series, Great Grief with Nnenna Freelon and a co-creator of the station's first children's literacy podcast, The Story Stables. She served as a senior producer for two Ten Percent Happier podcasts, Childproof and More Than a Feeling. In early 2023, she was interim executive producer for WNYC’s The Takeaway.

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