The price of all food has skyrocketed into the stratosphere and the government is doing nothing about the drain on the wealth of the public.
But there is a Rep that is at least trying to bang some help through the House but she must contend with the pseudo-human Johnson.
Rep. Jayapal is using a Seattle program as a guide….
As Americans face rising grocery prices under President Donald Trump and rally behind progressive policies and primary candidates, US Rep. Pramila Jayapal on Thursday introduced a bill that shows what kind of proposals could become reality with more Democrats like her in Congress.
Inspired by a program in her own district in Washington state, the chair emerita of the Congressional Progressive Caucus introduced the Fresh Bucks for Fresh Produce Act, which would create a pilot program at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) that gives households earning 80% or less of their area’s median income $60 per month to buy fruits and vegetables.
The USDA pilot would be modeled on Seattle’s Fresh Bucks initiative, in which enrolled households “experience a 31% higher rate of food security and consume at least three daily servings of fruits and vegetables 37% more often than those assigned to a program waitlist,” according to University of Washington (UW) research published last August.
“I would classify both of those numbers as pretty large,” study co-author Jessica Jones-Smith a professor at UW and University of California, Irvine, said at the time. “We don’t routinely see interventions that work that well. It’s a pretty big impact on diet in terms of what we can do from a policy perspective and expect to make a difference in food insecurity.”
In Seattle—generally ranked as an expensive but livable metropolis—a single person living within city limits on a monthly income of $7,070, or $84,850 a year, can apply for the program. For a family of four, it’s $10,095 per month, or $121,150 annually. In January, the city the welcomed over 4,500 more local households off its waitlist and increased monthly benefits from $40 to $60.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-food-assistance
A good program but will probably go nowhere as long as the MAGA morons run the House….that could change come 2027….we can only hope that there will be some help for the people of this nation coming with the next election.
God knows we are not getting much from the slugs in power now.
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“lego ergo scribo”
That seems like a good scheme, as long as they can be sure the money will be spent on the fruit and vegetables. And $60 a month is not that much given the ongoing price increases. Easy to imagine how many politicians will be against it though, including those that spend that much on a ‘light lunch’ in one day.
Best wishes, Pete.