Too bad many states will just refuse the money.
It's the best they can do given the political landscape IMO
That's probably the reason he is pledging it. It will help democrats in those states.
Keep in mind: the largest source of food waste is residential. The second largest source is restaurants.
Food waste is bad for the environment, sure. But the rent being too damn high is a lot more of the reason why people go hungry than me letting a bagged salad in my fridge go bad.
This right here. We don't have a food scarcity issue or even a price problem for most things. What we have is a logistics problem. Way too many people live in what are called food deserts. If they have easy access to "food" it's usually of the convenience store variety, overpriced and extremely bad for you.
I know not everyone can afford it but those that can should look at misfits marketplace. They sell the oddball produce that most people won't buy so it doesn't make it your local store, when a design changes drastically or is printed wrong, etc.
Tackiing hunger in this country will take money because money makes thing happen but it will also take more than just buying a bunch of food and handing it out. It's going to take a push for more community gardens, maybe allowing agriculture inside limits where it isn't at the moment, etc.
Almost half of food waste is people buying food that they let go bad before they eat it.
That's substantially a price problem, in that people are more willing to let a cheap banana spoil than a prime rib or lobster. Food being cheap makes people more willing to let it expire.
But fixing residential food waste by making food more expensive would make hunger worse.
$10 billion funded school lunches for a year during COVID and we should have kept it going. School kitchens are back to having to try to collect "lunch debt" again. So how is less than a fifth of that going to end hunger? This is just election posturing and empty promises. Look for more of these coming soon from the right.
Not American, making a number of assumptions on your system.
This 10 billion funded school lunches for everyone, at a multitude of different places. It was broad, unfocused, to cover something now.
How will this 1.7b be applied? Is it given, is it establishing ongoing sources, long term investment in assets?
Noble cause but they already spent 8 billion 2 years ago and there is plenty of hunger. I'm not sure how another 1.7 billion will fix it.
There is plenty of food but the distribution is a big part of the problem, hopefully they are addressing that.
I mean, his admin is ALSO currently trying to block the Kroger/Albertsons merger, for example. So this is clearly not the only thing going on.
The government spends hundreds of billions on infrastructure every year.
Have we fixed potholes permanently?
Also, $8 billion is a bit less than $24 bucks per person in America. Do you really think $24 is enough to permanently solve hunger in a country? Do you think that another $5/person is reasonable, a few years later?
Can't wait to see Red States reject the aid for their hungriest constituents.
Oh, a couple of states already did it. Were offered funds to feed kids during the summer time off from school. Rejected for “Socialism”…
And those people will still vote Republican to 'own the libs.'
That's SOCIALISM! Why not let RICH PEOPLE do that instead? Also I'm VERY VERY happy Elon Musk paid $44BILLION for a website!
… and then destroyed it. The man is clearly a genius.
He's doing with it exactly what he wanted originally.
He can pledge whatever he can, but being in control of only the executive branch, his options are limited.
The GOP will NOT LIKE that. ‘Bama and other states will reject the funding because… reasons.
Kellogg’s CEO salivating at all the extra cereal people will be able to buy for dinner.
I bet it'll all go to the illegal migrants, their luxury rooms and their free credit cards. /S
Fuck I hope so whatever helps those trying to get ahead. I work with a lot of immigrants and I'd love to give anyone of them those
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Biden administration has announced a $1.7 billion package to fund initiatives aimed at ending hunger across the U.S. by 2030, the White House announced on Tuesday morning.
The commitment will go towards funding 141 projects across the nation.
The full details of the package are expected to be announced by Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, at an event at the White House later on Tuesday.
As of 2022, around 17 million households experienced food insecurity nationwide, and more than 44 million people across the U.S. faced hunger, including one in five children, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The funding builds on the $8 billion already committed to fighting hunger in September 2022.
This is a breaking story.
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