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Awards/FORMULA GRANT (A)

$48,690,311

Department of Agriculture·Food and Nutrition Service

to ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

social-servicesactiveONGOING · MOD OF 2025 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2025-10-01·LATEST ACTION2026-05-19·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_266AR502W1006_012
Award description

WIC FOOD EXPENSE

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

Funds nutrition assistance and food benefits through Arkansas's Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program.

Sub-sectors
wic-nutritionfood-assistance-entitlement
Why this matters

Sustains nutrition support for low-income pregnant women, infants, and children—a cornerstone maternal and child health program.

Supply-chain signal

Sustains retail food supply chains serving low-income communities; ensures predictable demand for WIC-approved staples.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-06-10. Cost: $0.012584.

Period of performance
Start
2025-10-01
End
2026-09-30
Status
activein 92 days
Sources

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