How The USDA's Food Box Initiative Overpaid And Underdelivered
The Trump Administration has been buying food from farmers and getting it to food banks. Food banks, however, say the program was not set up to deliver food efficiently.
The Trump Administration has been celebrating an initiative that buys food from farmers and distributes it through charitable organizations like food banks. "I'm proud to announce that we will provide an additional $1 billion to fund the Farmers to Families Food Box program. It's worked out so well," President Trump told a cheering crowd in North Carolina on Aug. 24.
Yet food banks, which play a key role in the program, are ambivalent about it. On the one hand, they're grateful for the food. "Any family that's receiving on of these food boxes is blessed and, president and CEO of the food bank in San Antonio.
