Biden administration winds down Trump’s pandemic food box program (CNN)

CNN published an article that stated as the country slowly climbs out of the pandemic, the Biden administration is ending a program that delivered nearly 167 million boxes of fresh food to families in need and helped farmers sell their produce at a time when supply chain disruptions forced them to dump milk and destroy their crops. It’s one of many emergency federal aid programs that the government must decide how to wind down. Many policymakers want to keep a version of the food box program permanent to ensure needy families can get deliveries of fresh fruits and vegetables. Senior research fellow Joseph Glauber stated that “The Emergency Food Assistance Program would have been a better way to implement the emergency aid to begin with, instead USDA was trying to address both the supply chain problem hurting farmers and the growing need from hungry families.” Glauber added, “The idea was laudable. But I think it is a mistake to try to address farm-level problems with an emergency food program. I think the fundamental goal should be to provide good food at the lowest cost possible so that you can feed the most people.”  Republished by KCTV, Eyewitness News (Connecticut), Fox 10 WALA (Mobile, AL), WPTV (Portland, OR), AZ Family (Phoenix, Arizona), Fox 5 KVVU (Las Vegas, Nevada), and several dozen US media outlets, particularly in agricultural regions.