Monday, Dec. 8 - A bid to feed communities

08/12/2025 13 min
Monday, Dec. 8 - A bid to feed communities

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Episode Synopsis

The nonprofit organization Feeding America was looking for a better way to distribute billions of pounds of food to food banks each year. It used to use an algorithm to answer that question. It generated a list of food banks based on need, and when a shipment came up, Feeding America called the food bank at the top of the list. But what if a food bank didn’t need or want that donation? The answer to that problem is a market economy, of sorts.