The Department of Agriculture
recently announced that
it has revamped its supplemental federal food assistance program for
low-income women and young children (WIC) so recipients will have
greater access to vegetables, fruits, and whole grains. In 2011, 96
percent of eligible low-income households with children received
assistance from SNAP (formerly
known as food stamps), another federal Food and Nutrition Service
program. But there's work to do in facilitating the optimal health of
children and youth. In 2011, for example, more than one in five U.S.
children lived in households that were
food-insecure at some point during the year.
Leading tech companies have used big data techniques, which extract
knowledge and insights from large, complex collections of digital data,
for commercial purposes and have pioneered advances in the field of big
data. How can these techniques be used in social science research? Child
Trends weighs in.
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