FOOD SECURE NYC - New York City Coalition Against Hunger

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Executive Summary and IntroductionFood Secure NYC 2018 is an initiative aimed at ensuring that key stakeholders in the Cityof New York (and especially leading elected officials) commit to a plan to end hunger andensure access to nutritious, affordable, and convenient food for all New Yorkers through arevamped food system that creates jobs, aids workers, bolsters businesses, and protects theenvironment.The next Mayor of New York City should lead an effort – in conjunction with the CityCouncil and other local elected officials, the state and federal governments, the non-profitsector, the business community, and civil society – to dramatically transform the city’sbroken food system by 2018, the end of the next mayor’s first term.In the four years comprising the first term of the next mayor, this effort must move the cityfrom the failing food status quo – which fosters hunger, obesity, poverty and environmentaldegradation. Our goal should be a model for the nation that ensures that all city residentshave access to sufficient, affordable, nutritious food produced in a manner that not onlyprotects the environment, but also boosts economic opportunity for both workers andinvestors.Food Secure NYC 2018 seeks to launch a comprehensive, citywide effort to:I. Generate living wage jobs citywide, launch a food jobs initiative, and slash poverty.Enable one or more adults in distressed households to obtain and keep living wageemployment.Push for federal, state, and city legislation to increase wages and request businessleaders to voluntarily create jobs and raise wages.Launch economic development activities in all neighborhoods across the fiveboroughs focused on creating a large number of new, living wage jobs in a varietyof sectors.Launch a comprehensive “Good Food, Good Jobs” initiative to capture more of the$30 billion spent by NYC residents, annually, on food.Make food jobs a central component of the city’s job creation strategy.Grow, process, and manufacture more food right here in NYC.Provide more and better-targeted seed money to food jobs projects, bolster foodprocessing, expand community based technical assistance, and invest in urbanaquaculture.Fix welfare reform to focus on creating living wage jobs and reducing poverty.Enact an assets empowerment agenda.II. Ensure an adequate nutrition assistance safety net and boost upward mobility byexpanding access to SNAP, school breakfast, WIC, and summer meals benefits.Enable all eligible people to obtain the multiple benefits for which they are eligible3
through a single, easy-to-complete, application, available online in paper form, andby phone. Launch a comprehensive effort to increase the number of eligible families –especially working families – who receive SNAP. Participation should be increasedto 90 percent by the end of the next Mayoral term. Make it a top priority to provide free breakfast to all New York City school childrenby ensuring that every school provides either in-classroom or grab-and-gobreakfast. Mandate universal, free school lunches. Make it a priority to continue to improve both the taste and nutritional quality ofschool lunches and breakfasts. Enact an action plan to dramatically increase the use of federally-funded summermeals. Enact an action plan to expand the use of federally-funded after-school snacks andsuppers. Enact an action plan to increase the use of WIC benefits by eligible pregnantwoman and infants. Ensure adequate funding and support for the city’s Emergency Food Providers(EFPs). Ensure that senior meals programs are adequately funded.III. Create a public/private food policy council coordinated by a strengthened, fully-staffedCity Office of Food, Hunger & Nutrition Policy.Create and fully-staffed City Office of Food, Hunger & Nutrition Policy. The newoffice will implement a public/private Food Policy Council.The office will enable the city to upgrade its data collection and reporting to includekey hunger-related data on areas including; food insecurity, SNAP, child nutritionprograms, senior meals, and soup kitchens and food pantries.The office will receive a clear mandate to incorporate food policy issues into allCity planning and programming activities.IV. Guarantee access to affordable, nutritious food in every neighborhood, starting withpilot “food and nutrition zones.”Alleviate food deserts by implementing a comprehensive plan to ensure an adequatesupply of nutritious, diverse, convenient, affordable food, and clean and freedrinking water, in every neighborhood of the city.Expand the green cart program.Work with key stakeholders to implement one or more Food and Nutrition Zone(s)to saturate the targeted neighborhood(s) with every possible food access, antihunger,nutrition, obesity-reduction strategy known.Develop a “food access index” to take into account both the physical availability,and economic affordability of, nutritious foods.4
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The Solution: The next Mayor should
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Increase the availability of farmer
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