Posted on 09/14/2023 4:11:49 AM PDT by aquila48
The issue of food scarcity and food deserts have led to protests and shined a spotlight on deep-rooted inequities in Chicago.
"It is an abomination to think that 10 miles from Englewood people are living twenty years longer because they have access to things they need," said Ameya Pawar, Economic Security Project.
The non-profit Economic Security Project and the city are partnering to explore the creation of a municipally owned grocery store.
"Really it's filling the gaps for the market and making sure that people have access to all the goods and resources that they need to survive and thrive," Pawar said.
In the past five years on the South Side, store closings have included a Whole Foods, two Targets and three Walmarts. Pawar said the model of offering millions in city subsidies to large operators has failed, but while those businesses were beholden to bottom lines, a city-owned grocery could measure profit in a different way.
"A longer life span, better educational outcomes, and lower rates of disease which over time will save taxpayers money," Pewar said.
Pewar said city-owned groceries have been successful in smaller communities like Baldwin, Fla., but some are skeptical.
"The reason we are considered a food apartheid or in this food apartheid is because of disinvestment, and the disinvestment has come locally from government," said Aisha Butler, Resident Association of Greater Englewood.
Digital dollar and state owned food = state owned subjects.
If I want a head of lettuce, I have to drive 12 miles east or14 miles west to get to a grocery store with fresh produce.
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There are 6 W-M Super Stores within an 8 mile radius of my house.
But they will be stolen from and eventually burned same as the stores they replace.
“But they will be stolen from and eventually burned same as the stores they replace.”
Without a doubt!
Liberals’ most undeniable characteristic is their inability to connect dots - for them cause-and-effect is a foreign concept.
Things just happen.
Yep, strip out the lead poisoning and heroin/fentanyl deaths and that 20 year life expectancy gap narrows considerably.
I’m sure Mayor Let’s Go Brandon and his Marxist minions don’t care how much money this boondoggle loses due to theft, incompetence, graft as long as it’s other people’s money!
Being Chicago, I’m sure all the local politicians/revruns/community organizers have already figured out how they will get fat and rich off this scheme. It’s the Biden version of the American Dream.
Baldwin is a small town that is 69% white and it voted 67% for Trump. The town created the supermarket when IGA closed it due to retirement. They are running it until someone buys it.
They need to have Baldwin government show them how to run it...But they think Baldwin is racist...🤓
That is some world-class, Grade A bullshitting right there. Probably said with a straight face as well.
So true!!!!
“Ameya Pawar”
Does this idiot think we care about his opinion? He ain’t even from around here.
So tired of these third world goobers coming over here and lecturing Americans on how things should be done.
Yeah, this will go well. /s
Bread riots, embezzlement, graft...all the good stuff.
That's what they should do. Ration cards for city residents.
It’ll be great when the Khmer Rouge run Chicago… just wait, you’ll see!!!
I mean… They had so much success in Cambodia after all…
The non-profit Economic Security Project and the city are partnering to explore the creation of a municipally owned grocery store.
Will they invest their money in this................
I wasn’t sure if the name was for male or female. The idiot is a typical Globalist Communist!
Let’s see, sounds Communist!
Gangbangers Grocery...
$}{!TCARGO IS DOOMED TO FAILURE BECAUSE THE goobermint idiots WILL NEVER ADMIT THAT THEY NO ABSOLUTELY ZERO, NOTHING, ZIP, PIFF, NILL AND THEIR COLON-ECTIVE (read head up a$$€$) AND THEY WILL NEVER CHANGE !!!
$}{!TCARGO, THE BLIND LEADING THE STUPID. HOW SIMPLY IGNORANT KIG OF THEM IS.
THERE IS NO RECOURSE FOR THEM ANYMORE.
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