The same ten dollars you spend on lunch is all it costs for City Harvest to feed 37 kids who are hungry. That's pretty astounding.
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When you are already eating as cheaply and meagerly as possible, any raise in cost can quickly plunge you and your family into hunger.
It's very difficult when you have $1.50 per day to spend on food and drink, but for people who live this reality, that money also has to cover medical expenses and education, fuel and shelter - sometimes for an entire family.
The answers to feeding hungry children is not fewer dollars to feed hungry children, it's to do more. It is to raise the minimum wage. It is to increase, not dismantle, the earned income tax credit. It is to make college more affordable for more middle class families, not more expensive. These are the things that grow our middle class.
Usually, cheap food is not nutritious. You're feeding people, but you're not really feeding people something that is good for them.
You know, not everybody can afford to pay $58 for prime rib or $650 for a bottle of wine. My friends and I cook for regular families who worry about feeding their kids and paying the bills.
I do feel like food should cost more, because we aren't paying farmers a living wage. It has to cost more.
The way we subsidize food makes it cheaper to go to McDonald's and get a hamburger than a salad, and that's insane. It's pure government policy.
There are restaurants you can go in and pay $100 a person for a meal. I get as much satisfaction out of paying $25.
If someone else is paying for it, food just tastes a lot better.
When we cut the price for bananas by 1 ruble, we sell 100 tons a day more... There are people who live within their budget.
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