Julián Castro lays out plan for tackling hunger in America ahead of Thanksgiving
At times in his childhood, Julián Castro saw his mom shorten the grocery list in the lean times to make sure they could pay the month’s bills.
“The grocery list was limited. There where months when the electricity got turned off,” Castro told NBC News. “One of my earliest memories is of a family friend bringing a box with food in it from the food bank.” “Doctors chalked that up to stress and I believe it was the stress of providing for my brother and me at the time,” he said.
Castro's plan includes identifying food deserts — areas without any grocery stores or places to buy nutritious food, usually in minority and rural communities — and making them eligible for federal grants and support, including more community and government-run grocery stores, farmers markets and food banks.
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