Joe Biden pledges $1.7 billion to end hunger across U.S.

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.
I don't get this part...
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.
Why?! Biden should be doing this! He needs to be out in public looking strong and "doing things"! SMH This makes him look like everybody else is doing his job for him.
- Or like at least Harris. She could sure use a win at some point during this presidency. She's done plenty of work shoveling shit, give her at least one video clip of doing something good. No one's going to put Doug Emhoff on the news.
- ... who the fuck cares?
  Why doesn't Biden personally shove his boot up my ass? Him making my boss do it shows how weak he is.

I'm really curious to see what these projects are going to look like. It's estimated that 30-40% of all food in the US is wasted (usda.gov)

USAToday also has a recent story where they discussed some of the climate impacts that could be contributing to.

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.
- I'd argue that the largest source is actually grocery stores followed by restaurants. I've worked a few grocery stores including target when they added pfresh. The food that gets tossed by deli/bakery alone will piss you off. Second harvest would only come around once or twice a week so the rest of the time tons of bread, fried chicken, cakes, etc would get tossed in the trash. And thats not even accounting for the vendor trash. At least once I rescued a ton of little debbie stuff from a dumpster, it was all still boxed up and in date, the boxes had been smashed by something so the vendor tossed it.
  The amount of outdated chobani I pulled off an end cap once would make your head spin. I filled up an entire shopping cart once because the idiots who were supposed to be running pfresh just kept stuffing it full without rotating stock or checking dates.
  Oh and ask me about the pallets of bananas that tgt would throw out because they were shipped too much, didn't sell enough, etc.
  One bread vendor I knew would take the close dated bread to the nearest good will so it had a chance to sell but I'm not sure about others.
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.
- I have seen some videos on things like vertical gardens in shipping containers that seem like they would be a great way to bring produce to urban areas that is both fresh, and nearby in terms of logistics.
  This looks like a decent article about it from a few years ago on a company in Denver. There are a growing number of companies working on this also, and maybe with some government funds it could spread faster, and in areas most in need first.

$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?
- Looks like they're giving it to about a hundred established programs.

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.
- Completely different group within his admin. FTC isnt gonna have a hand in ending hunger
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?
- I mean, we aren't all go hungry, obviously.

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”…
- Don't forget the comment about childhood obesity
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.
Where you think taxes go?
A society built on rich people donating is stupid.

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.

They already are! I don't see how this will be any different, but I'm all for them figuring out a way to get food to the people that need it. It's infuriating watching shithole states deny food to theirs in need, especially when it's being offered at federal expense.
- Cruelty, as they say, is the point.

Kellogg’s CEO salivating at all the extra cereal people will be able to buy for dinner.

Hey stop judging me and my dinner choices.
- Cornflakes for dinner? Have you not consulted the food reverse funnel? If you don't eat 4 more loafs of bread you're starving your body of precious nutrients.

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
- Even the venezuelans who have come to beg and destroy the city with crime like they did in my country?😭😭😭

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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Can we not find a source for the news that isn't owned by an East Asian religious cult since 2018?

Newsweek is an American publication, owned by American publishing company Newsweek Publishing LLC.
- Let me help:
  In 2013, IBT Media acquired Newsweek from IAC; the acquisition included the Newsweek brand and its online publication, but did not include The Daily Beast.[11] IBT Media, which also owns the International Business Times, rebranded itself as Newsweek Media Group, and in 2014, relaunched Newsweek in both print and digital form.
  In 2018, IBT Media split into two companies, Newsweek Publishing and IBT Media. The split was accomplished one day before the District Attorney of Manhattan indicted Etienne Uzac, the co-owner of IBT Media, on fraud charges.[12][13][14]
  Under Newsweek's current co-owner and CEO, Dev Pragad, it is profitable with revenue of $60 million and also growing: between May 2019 and May 2022, its monthly unique visitors rose from about 30 million to 48 million, according to Comscore. Pragad became CEO in 2016; readership has grown to 100 million readers per month, the highest in its 90-year history.[15][16] The operations of the company were researched by the Harvard Business School; they published a case study in 2021.[17]
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsweek
  Then just check into those companies and the CEO.

I thought there was no money in America to do things like this because excess military surplus was sent to Ukraine?

Seems like a noble cause, why not Trillion?

Because that might actually accomplish something

Oh look the Democrats are trying to get people to vote again

You say that like its a bad thing.
Or do votes only matter when they are for your party?
- it's a good thing. it doesn't happen enough

OK that's cool! I'm wondering how this will effect homelessness though

WHADDABOUT CANCER?
HOW WILL THIS PREVENT CANCER?
It won't. I rest my case.
- Motherfucker has not even cured global warming yet. How is he gonna cure cancer and hunger while I'm sitting here hot in February!?

There's literally unhoused people about 5 blocks from me that just got their encampment raided. Police took their food and threw it away along with all of their belongings. The police didn't offer any help or resources either so where did this 1.7 billion go?

What the fuck does your local bullshit cops being local bullshit cops have to do with a federal aid pledge?
- How does this money actually get dispersed? It is not given directly to people. It is filtered through bureaucratic channels to ensure paper pushers get a 9 to 5 and pension to say they manage shit. People that need assistance routinely have to jump through hoops to qualify and are constantly at an inconvenience to appease these agents for the money to ultimately get funneled to the police somehow.
- also police brutality is a systemic issue, not a local one. you think the cops in nyc are much better?
Why is your town so bad at housing the homeless? NYC made it illegal to sleep on the street and puts everyone in shelters. It works really well and turns a human problem into a budgetary one. Money can be found.
Maybe you should vote for local politicians instead of blaming people who have nothing to do with fixing your town's problems.
- Have you ever been unhoused? They didn't put everyone in shelters because there are still people on the streets. Making it illegal only harms the unhoused. Do you know what happens in shelters? Do you know what you have to submit to? So now if you don't qualify to stay in the shelter, what then? Now you are a criminal. NYC isn't helping with a law like that. They are criminalizing homelessness which is the fault of the city. There's literally not even enough shelters to handle them. Partly because they closed a bunch of them during pandemic and never let them reopen.
  Like how could anyone logically think that criminalizing homelessness would magically make them go away? Now they get to become fodder for the prison industrial complex and a body they can justify a higher police and corrections budget for.

My god that picture.

“What’re you looking at smooth skin”

A genocide enabler who feeds people is still a genocide enabler.

How much has he already given to murder across the globe?

Not as much as Trump would be willing to give.
- Whataboutism. Dullard...

Yet he stopped aid going to Gaza and is willing to let children go hungry there, and get bombed some more.. and just die. Theres also still children going hungry here. Bet there will be next election cycle too.

So, are you going to vote for Trump or not vote and help Trump that way? I'm sure he'll run right over to Gaza and give a helping hand.
- I'm not voting for either old white man not fit for office.
I had to scroll down a surprising amount to find my first blatant propaganda post. Well done, Lemmy, you guys are giving me hope.
- look at that you can't claim that I'm wrong cause there are children dying in gaza due to US voting against a ceasefire. all you can claim is that its propaganda simply because it is critical of biden's administration or US foreign policy. And people call me a snowflake....
- ok but am i wrong? can you say that children aren't being killed in gaza and biden can but won't stop it when this country is the only one voting against a ceasefire?

How is anyone hungry in America? Those people are fat as shit.

Waste of money; fight the high prices instead of this pr crap

Man I hate when politicians try to help people
- You don't understand the root issue it seems
- This will help for what, a year or two?
  He could spend his time and effort trying to fix the issue long term . . . or at the very least address thee root cause (capitalism) and donate the money for a temporary fix.
  The funding builds on the $8 billion already committed to fighting hunger in September 2022.
  And yet lack of access to food and hunger is still growing, almost like throwing money at the problem won't ever fix it and all it takes is one Republican government to come along and stop throwing money at it for this house of cards to come crashing down on the most needing.
How does one "fight high grocery prices" exactly? You can't legislate lower margins for companies.
- ... Of course we can. Why couldn't we?
  There's also all sorts of laws that aren't being enforced, but should be. Such as anti trust laws, which could be used to split almost every company at the grocery store, as well as most grocery stores themselves
  There's probably laws still on the books related to price gouging for basic food specifically too
  Our country wasn't always like this