José Andrés

It's a big conversation right now. Yeah. Snaps, which is what people call as food stamps. Snaps is a temporary. It can be a day, a month, a year for families that fall behind. that the government give you that food dollar, that dollar assistance for food. And it's been very controversial. And it's politics around it. There's a way Democrats won, there's a way Republicans won.

But everybody forgets really about the right talk, which is what is the right policy? How do we, if somebody complains, oh, food stamps has not,

But everybody forgets really about the right talk, which is what is the right policy? How do we, if somebody complains, oh, food stamps has not,

But everybody forgets really about the right talk, which is what is the right policy? How do we, if somebody complains, oh, food stamps has not,

fulfill its promise it's like okay but let's not fight about cutting it down let's fight about how to make it better and let's make sure how those dollars in the process of feeding american families in blue and red states equally that helps those families that fall behind to be able to put food in the table are able to do it with the dignity they deserve what happened

fulfill its promise it's like okay but let's not fight about cutting it down let's fight about how to make it better and let's make sure how those dollars in the process of feeding american families in blue and red states equally that helps those families that fall behind to be able to put food in the table are able to do it with the dignity they deserve what happened

fulfill its promise it's like okay but let's not fight about cutting it down let's fight about how to make it better and let's make sure how those dollars in the process of feeding american families in blue and red states equally that helps those families that fall behind to be able to put food in the table are able to do it with the dignity they deserve what happened

That because I said before the government doesn't see food as a whole, and usually everything is handled through the Department of Agriculture, which it's okay, but it's not the right way. What happens that when a family in a poor suburban area in any city in America receives the food stamps money, in the place they live is so poor that they don't even have a market.

That because I said before the government doesn't see food as a whole, and usually everything is handled through the Department of Agriculture, which it's okay, but it's not the right way. What happens that when a family in a poor suburban area in any city in America receives the food stamps money, in the place they live is so poor that they don't even have a market.

That because I said before the government doesn't see food as a whole, and usually everything is handled through the Department of Agriculture, which it's okay, but it's not the right way. What happens that when a family in a poor suburban area in any city in America receives the food stamps money, in the place they live is so poor that they don't even have a market.

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.

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.