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How WIC Helped Tara Marks Get to Law School Today, Tara Marks is in law school— and on Feb. 13 she told members of the Senate Budget Committee that her journey from poverty to an advanced degree program was possible thanks to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Tara Marks, a Bread activist from Pittsburgh, once received WIC and SNAP benefits. She is Program for Women, Infants, and Chil- currently in law school and gave testimony to the Senate Budget Committee on Feb. 13, 2013. dren (WIC) and other federal programs. You may remember Tara as the face (SNAP, formerly food stamps), aft W