Summary

Almost every plan to lower food prices ends up putting the government in one of two businesses, either running a grocery store , as New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is now doing, or telling grocery stores what to charge. A new proposal from the Kitchen Table Project does neither, which is why I’ve spent more time with it than I expected to. Instead of working on what shoppers pay, it works on what the store pays. The federal government already buys an enormous amount of food.

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