José Andrés
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Because their neighborhood is so poor that nobody wants to open the market. So even those poor families, they have to go to another neighborhood to spend those dollars, even when they have no transportation sometimes because they don't own a car or they don't have public transportation. So they don't have easy access even to that food.
Because their neighborhood is so poor that nobody wants to open the market. So even those poor families, they have to go to another neighborhood to spend those dollars, even when they have no transportation sometimes because they don't own a car or they don't have public transportation. So they don't have easy access even to that food.
So imagine if all of a sudden the government, yes, they help the people through the food stamps, but also in the process, urban housing development is able to help building a market that is run by the city or is run by the state where the local farmers can come. In a way, you are subsidizing that business because no other private business wants to do it.
So imagine if all of a sudden the government, yes, they help the people through the food stamps, but also in the process, urban housing development is able to help building a market that is run by the city or is run by the state where the local farmers can come. In a way, you are subsidizing that business because no other private business wants to do it.
So imagine if all of a sudden the government, yes, they help the people through the food stamps, but also in the process, urban housing development is able to help building a market that is run by the city or is run by the state where the local farmers can come. In a way, you are subsidizing that business because no other private business wants to do it.
But somebody has to be taking care of that shortfall. And all of a sudden, we build there a market. All of a sudden, that family has the dignity to be able to shop in their neighborhood where that shop actually hired local people that all of a sudden they are employee in the neighborhood. And that neighborhood, it stops being poor no longer.
But somebody has to be taking care of that shortfall. And all of a sudden, we build there a market. All of a sudden, that family has the dignity to be able to shop in their neighborhood where that shop actually hired local people that all of a sudden they are employee in the neighborhood. And that neighborhood, it stops being poor no longer.
But somebody has to be taking care of that shortfall. And all of a sudden, we build there a market. All of a sudden, that family has the dignity to be able to shop in their neighborhood where that shop actually hired local people that all of a sudden they are employee in the neighborhood. And that neighborhood, it stops being poor no longer.
And all of a sudden, that one dollar, as the example I gave you of DC Central Kitchen, is not only the dollar that the government throws money at the problem, I'm going to feed you today, but that dollar of the government, if the government is smart and works as a whole.
And all of a sudden, that one dollar, as the example I gave you of DC Central Kitchen, is not only the dollar that the government throws money at the problem, I'm going to feed you today, but that dollar of the government, if the government is smart and works as a whole.
And all of a sudden, that one dollar, as the example I gave you of DC Central Kitchen, is not only the dollar that the government throws money at the problem, I'm going to feed you today, but that dollar of the government, if the government is smart and works as a whole.
creates local employment in the same poor neighborhood, gives dignity to that neighborhood because all of a sudden it's a little bodega, a little market. All of a sudden that place comes back to life.
creates local employment in the same poor neighborhood, gives dignity to that neighborhood because all of a sudden it's a little bodega, a little market. All of a sudden that place comes back to life.
creates local employment in the same poor neighborhood, gives dignity to that neighborhood because all of a sudden it's a little bodega, a little market. All of a sudden that place comes back to life.
That's a wonderful idea. Is there an example of a government in this world that's doing that?
That's a wonderful idea. Is there an example of a government in this world that's doing that?
That's a wonderful idea. Is there an example of a government in this world that's doing that?
It's working places in the world that, you know. Local places. It's important that in America we have something we call the food deserts. Yeah. In Spain, the country no more, we have our own share of problems too. It's never the perfect city, the perfect state of the perfect country because if one place is perfect, please call us right now.
It's working places in the world that, you know. Local places. It's important that in America we have something we call the food deserts. Yeah. In Spain, the country no more, we have our own share of problems too. It's never the perfect city, the perfect state of the perfect country because if one place is perfect, please call us right now.
It's working places in the world that, you know. Local places. It's important that in America we have something we call the food deserts. Yeah. In Spain, the country no more, we have our own share of problems too. It's never the perfect city, the perfect state of the perfect country because if one place is perfect, please call us right now.