Food Affordability
Between 2012 and 2023 in NYC, food prices have increased more than BLANK percent?
A) What is 25%?
B) What is 50%?
C) What is 100%?
D) What is 150%?
B) What is 50%
The US's largest BLANK producer's profits tripled as the price of their good soared to unbelievable levels.
What are eggs?
Mayor Mamdani is introducing this project as part of his plan to address the affordability crisis.
What are city-run grocery stores?
This concept refers to neighborhoods that do not not have proper access to affordable groceries of all kinds, including fresh fruits and vegetables.
What is a food desert?
How many companies (hint: less than 10) control 85% of beef processing?
What is 4 companies?
"We Want Land, Bread, Housing, Education,
Clothing, Justice And Peace."
This was the 10th point of the political demands of which organization?
What is the Black Panther Party?
This massive bill pushed by Trump and the Republicans will put job requirements on accessing SNAP and threaten the benefits of over 1 million New Yorkers, including 363,000 children.
What is the Big Beautiful Bill?
Between 2021 and 2022, the food industry recorded BLANK dollars in profits. Not revenue, profits.
A) What is $75 billion
B) What is $100 billion
C) What is $125 billion
D) What is $150 billion
What is $150 billion!!!
This (Latin-American) country has set price controls on a basic grocery basket, and seen prices for consumers DROP 12%
What is Mexico?
What do these two lines (the blue and the orange ones) represent?
What are the growth in average weekly wages (blue) versus growth in average grocery costs (orange)?
Supervalu, the main supplier of Key Foods, gave their CEO a golden parachute of BLANK amount of money when they were acquired by United Foods, another massive grocery wholesaler.
A) What is $6.3 million
B) What is $9.4 million
C) What is $12.8 millon
D) What is $20.5 million
C) What is $12.8 million
How many states in the US (to the nearest 10th) have universal free breakfast lunch programs?
What is 10 (9)?
Which item at the grocery store has had the biggest jump in price in the last month?
What are tomatoes (they jumped 15% in price in just one month!)
What sector of food manufacturing brings in the most revenue AND what is #2. You have to get BOTH!
What are the 1) Meat and 2) Dairy sectors.
The Black Panther party their Brownsville headquarters on what avenue in the neighborhood? (Hint, its also a stop on the 2,3,4,5 line)
What is Sutter Ave?