How Food Banks Used Markets | The Economics Review

How Feeding America learned to feed more by embracing the free market.

How Food Banks Used Markets – The Economics Review Skip to content How Food Banks Used Markets By: Deanna Park How Feeding America learned to feed more by embracing the free market. Feeding America faces the same question every year: How to distribute the 300 million pounds of food donated to its 210 regional food banks. Until 2005, Feeding America distributed food and other goods on a first come first serve basis. Food banks that had been waiting for new supplies the longest received new donations, regardless of what those donations were. Although arguably a fair method of distributing

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