FarmboxRx, a food delivery company, is launching a fund to help lessen the financial toll of bygone pandemic-era benefits on food-insecure U.S. households.
The new program is accepting a maximum of 200 participants in its 60-day application window and currently slated to run for six months. "The private sector is coming forward," FarmboxRx CEO Ashley Tyrner tells Axios. "And they have to. This is something that the government has not been able to tackle fully on their own."
Program costs are being fully covered by FarmboxRx, Tyrner notes, while future iterations of it might be incorporated into partnerships with community-based organizations and nonprofits.Although the USDA won't release its official data until later this year, it's likely that food insecurity rates are on the upswing, according to Hilary Seligman, a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco who specializes in food insecurity.
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