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EPISODE · Jan 13, 2025 · 12 MIN

Cookie-Cutter Nutrition—The Problem With USDA's Thrifty Food Plan

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USDA's Thrifty Food Plan aims to help low-income Americans eat well without breaking their modest budgets. It's an altruistic attempt to promote public health. But this bureaucratic project to promote nutrition lacks what so many other government programs do: the ability to incentivize healthy living at scale.

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