The House and Senate budget proposals contain a reduction in state funds for the WIC Program of $1.01 million. This level of reduction will jeopardize WIC client services AND result in a significant reduction in the WIC Farmers Market Nutrition Program.

More than 40 organizations have signed on to a letter to legislators urging protection of the WIC funding. Read the letter and see the list of organizational supporters.

Sin un aumento en los ingresos, el presupuesto actual en crisis pone en peligro a los más vulnerables y desestabiliza la economía familiar la cual a su vez, es en la que depende el Estado. La Alianza de los Niños apoya los esfuerzos para aumentar los ingresos para asegurar que los niños de Washington puedan contar con una red de programas críticos en el momento en el que más lo necesitan.

16% (approximately 226,000) of Washington’s children under 18 live below the federal poverty level. The 226,000 children living in poverty would form a continuous line along the entire length of I-5 in Washington. Read the Child Poverty Fact Sheet.

A central purpose of public education is to ensure that all children—no matter their families’ economic status—have an equal opportunity to succeed in school and life. This starts with making sure that all students enter kindergarten ready to succeed.  Today, too many students start kindergarten behind their peers, and many are never able to catch up.

Children are born learning and all children in Washington deserve the chance to succeed in school and life. The more exposure children have in their earliest years to new experiences, the stronger their social, emotional and intellectual foundations—the building blocks of future learning—become.