
Intro Econ 2: Markets & Pickles
Planet Money Summer School
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Feeding America, You're Getting Me Pickles
Feeding america is network of food banks all round the country, including susanna's. On this call, they said they had a big donation for her. It was not fresh produce. It was a truck load of five gallon buckets of pickles. And what did you do with them? We strong armed every soup kitchen we could find into ticking tickles. Ha, ha, ha. You're getting me, you're offering me pickles. One food bank director in idaho, my home state, complained that he got a truckload of potatoes. He already had a warehouse full of potatoes that had been donated by local farmers. This system had real consequences for hungry people all
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