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Can we not find a source for the news that isn’t owned by an East Asian religious cult since 2018?

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Newsweek is an American publication, owned by American publishing company Newsweek Publishing LLC.

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Let me help:

In 2013, IBT Media acquired Newsweek from IAC; the acquisition included the Newsweek brand and its online publication, but did not include The Daily Beast.[11] IBT Media, which also owns the International Business Times, rebranded itself as Newsweek Media Group, and in 2014, relaunched Newsweek in both print and digital form.

In 2018, IBT Media split into two companies, Newsweek Publishing and IBT Media. The split was accomplished one day before the District Attorney of Manhattan indicted Etienne Uzac, the co-owner of IBT Media, on fraud charges.[12][13][14]

Under Newsweek’s current co-owner and CEO, Dev Pragad, it is profitable with revenue of $60 million and also growing: between May 2019 and May 2022, its monthly unique visitors rose from about 30 million to 48 million, according to Comscore. Pragad became CEO in 2016; readership has grown to 100 million readers per month, the highest in its 90-year history.[15][16] The operations of the company were researched by the Harvard Business School; they published a case study in 2021.[17]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsweek

Then just check into those companies and the CEO.

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Noble cause but they already spent 8 billion 2 years ago and there is plenty of hunger. I’m not sure how another 1.7 billion will fix it.

There is plenty of food but the distribution is a big part of the problem, hopefully they are addressing that.

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I mean, his admin is ALSO currently trying to block the Kroger/Albertsons merger, for example. So this is clearly not the only thing going on.

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Completely different group within his admin. FTC isnt gonna have a hand in ending hunger

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The FTC price increases in foods due to monopolizing is absolutely having a hand in helping to reduce hunger.

Another thing I can think of off the top of my head the Biden admin and democrats are doing is fighting to increase funding for SNAP and resisting republican efforts to impose more restrictions on the program and make it harder to use.

Also the 8 billion isn’t already spent and nothing happened, it’s in the process of being spent and this is more being put on top.

While these are all fine and good, personally I still think a universal basic income would be the best way at reducing hunger. A totally unrestricted program like that though be very hard to push, despite all the evidence of their effectiveness, when there’s fighting over whether or not SNAP should be taking a fine toothed comb to exactly what foods people are or not allowed to buy with it.

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The government spends hundreds of billions on infrastructure every year.

Have we fixed potholes permanently?

Also, $8 billion is a bit less than $24 bucks per person in America. Do you really think $24 is enough to permanently solve hunger in a country? Do you think that another $5/person is reasonable, a few years later?

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I mean, we aren’t all go hungry, obviously.

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Oh look the Democrats are trying to get people to vote again

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You say that like its a bad thing.

Or do votes only matter when they are for your party?

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it’s a good thing. it doesn’t happen enough

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Ah, your tone suggests that its a dig rather than a good thing

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-12 points

How much has he already given to murder across the globe?

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Not as much as Trump would be willing to give.

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1 point

Whataboutism. Dullard…

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My god that picture.

“What’re you looking at smooth skin”

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