As the government shutdown shows no sign of ending, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has provided New Hampshire with additional funding to keep the Women, Infants and Children Nutrition Program — or WIC — running into November, according to the state Department of Health and Human Services.

WIC provides food and education to expecting and new parents and their young children.

Since the shutdown began, advocates, enrollees and elected officials have voiced concerns that vital food assistance programs could run out of money if the government remained closed into November. October benefits were already distributed before the shutdown began.

WIC and the larger Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are both fully federally funded, but administered jointly by the states and federal gove

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