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Ashwani Jain: Offer grants, incentives to grocers to serve food deserts

We must encourage healthy eating. Typically, those living in low-income neighborhoods lack access to fresh produce; they live too far away from full-service groceries; they're poorly served by public transit; and what they have is limited to what smaller convenience stores carry. We should offer grants, loans and tax incentives to grocers willing to open stores in underserved and impoverished areas.
Source: Medium.com posting on 2022 Maryland Gubernatorial race May 14, 2021

Duf Sundheim: Address the 8.9 million Californians living in poverty

California has suffered an economic earthquake that has cracked the Golden State in two. In Silicon Valley we are witnessing one of the greatest accumulations of wealth in the history of civilization. At the same time, large swaths of this state have been left behind by years of bad government decisions. There are 8.9 million Californians living in poverty.

The historic paths to the middle class are being choked off. In fact, the fastest growing path to the middle class today is a government job. So it is not "what you know," it is "who you know." And an economy based on "who you know" has a disproportionate negative impact on citizens of disadvantaged backgrounds or modest means. The answer to America's problems lies in addressing the problems these voters and voters like them across the nation face every day.

Source: Sundheim letter on Medium.com on 2016 California Senate race Sep 14, 2015

Nick Freitas: Cites welfare handouts as major reason for family breakdown

He also takes on the politically correct taboos that prevent us from seeking meaningful solutions, insisting that "we [should] start to look at most of these shooters coming from broken homes." He even takes on the welfare state, insisting that it "contributes significantly to dismantling the family, as families become more and more dependent upon the government than they were mothers and fathers in the home raising children."
Source: Medium.com on 2018 Virginia Senate race Mar 7, 2018

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