Aside from all the other issues with this, $3 a meal per person is $270-$280 per person per month on food. Many people can’t afford that anyway.
Aside from all the other issues with this, $3 a meal per person is $270-$280 per person per month on food. Many people can’t afford that anyway.
I mean I like that something like this is being considered at least. It’s always been a bafflement to me that the liberal establishment hasn’t tried to trot out more of these actually ameliorative programs for food or housing, let alone health care.
It’s always disheartening to hear the numbers about how much it would cost to just outright end homelessness, child starvation, etc. Because usually the numbers are less than that year’s military budget increase. Like, we can’t even pretend to try?
That said, $3 a meal as an answer to poverty starvation does give very
vibes.
I’ve been thinking for years at this point a salary-sacrifice, state-run hello fresh would be fucking awesome. Would need to be properly run, get actual expert chefs and nutritionists in to design it, contracts for farmers, plan well in advance. Doing it on a massive scale would (hopefully) be more efficient, reduce waste, provide jobs and be a source of social cohesion.
Let it be optional, the better off subsidise the less well off. Kind of like the NHS for food, even allow top ups for “special” meals as and when.