Huffington
Post
Rena N.
Lauer
Ph.D
Candidate, Harvard
Posted:
01/25/2013 6:32 pm
The cashier
told the woman in front of me that she couldn't buy the sack of potatoes. WIC,
the government food program for mothers and children, would not pay for
starches, and so the potatoes she had chosen -- "mistaking" them for
a vegetable -- had to go back to the supermarket's shelves.