The answer to food unaffordability isn’t food banks and other stop-gap programs but rather to give people money to buy food for themselves, a local poverty reduction advocate says. That’s the long-term solution advocated for in Jill Umbach’s blog posts on the Grey Bruce Poverty Task Force website which began Feb. 23 and will run […]
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