WIC Grant funding on agenda at tonight’s Joplin City Council meeting

One of the items on the agenda for tonight’s Joplin City Council meeting is the nearly $750,000 grant for the WIC program for all of Jasper County through the Joplin Health Department.

Mayor Keenan Cortez explains to Newstalk KZRG:

“This is an annual deal that we do every year. The state of Missouri gives us money or grants us money to operate our WIC program, Women, Infant and Children. This is just our annual installment of that. It’s about $749,000 that will go into that program, serving not just the city of Joplin, but the entire county for some of our lower income families, the women, single moms especially, that have children, this will help them get the nutritional assistance that they need.”

Cortez went on to say:  “When they go to the store, they’ll have an E card that they can go to Food for Less, which is right here in the parking lot, the Walmart Market stores and of course the super centers and get the things necessary for their children to keep them nutritionally sound for a little bit of a time.”