Why isn’t there a government program providing extremely easy access to basic food? (US)
I imagine that it would be incredibly cheap to provide easy, no-questions-asked access to food that is somewhat nutritious yet low status and not desirable (old bread, red delicious apples, etc.)
SNAP has a large admin overhead, and this could easily supplement it.
Free school lunches (+ sometimes breakfasts) is a real world policy adjacent to your idea, we could look to it for hints about outcomes of a larger basic food program. My recollection is that it has pretty good outcomes but a deeper dive would be better than my recollections.
Why isn’t there a government program providing extremely easy access to basic food? (US)
I imagine that it would be incredibly cheap to provide easy, no-questions-asked access to food that is somewhat nutritious yet low status and not desirable (old bread, red delicious apples, etc.)
SNAP has a large admin overhead, and this could easily supplement it.
Free school lunches (+ sometimes breakfasts) is a real world policy adjacent to your idea, we could look to it for hints about outcomes of a larger basic food program. My recollection is that it has pretty good outcomes but a deeper dive would be better than my recollections.
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Is it at all plausible that for-profit prisons are lobbying to make more people starve? This explanation seems motivated by partisanship.