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A Food Secure NYC 2018Building a Hunger-Free NYC with a Food System thatImproves Nutrition, Creates Jobs, Supports Workers, andProtects the EnvironmentThe New York City Coalition Against Hunger50 Broad Street, Suite 1520New York, New York 100041
Table ofContents:Executive Summary and Introduction 3Background: New York City’s Structurally Broken Economy and Food System 7Recommendations for Executive Action:I. Generate living wage jobs citywide, launch a food jobs initiative, and slashpoverty. 17II.III.IV.Ensure an adequate nutrition assistance safety net and boost upward mobilitythrough expanded access to SNAP, school breakfast, WIC, and summer mealsbenefits. 34Create a public/private food policy council coordinated by a strengthened, fullystaffedCity Office of Food, Hunger & Nutrition Policy. 52Guarantee access to affordable, nutritious food in every neighborhood, startingwith pilot “food and nutrition zones.” 58V. Bolster mutual self-interest between consumers who eat food and the people whogrow, pick, process, manufacture, warehouse, and sell food locally and regionally.71VI. Improve the sustainability with which food and food-related packaging is created,distributed, consumed, and disposed. 74VII. Better prepare the city for the food-related impact of disasters. 76VIII. Comprehensively use AmeriCorps national service participants and communityvolunteers to advance all of the above goals. 81References 82Acknowledgements 872
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