For today’s show, Tuesday host Carousel Bayrd takes a close look at two important local initiatives. First, Renee Callaway and Jeremy Nash from the City of Madison Traffic Engineering talk to us about Madison’s “Vision Zero” and “20 is Plenty” projects for slower speeds, fewer traffic incidents, and safer streets for pedestrians, bicyclists, drivers. Then, […]
Reinventing Food Banks
Food banks have been an important tool in addressing food insecurity during the pandemic, but they alone aren’t enough to solve the problem—to do that, we need to focus on the root causes of hunger. That’s the argument Katie Martin makes in her new book, Reinventing Food Banks and Pantries. She joins us on the […]
Food Insecurity During the Pandemic
An estimated 13.7 million U.S. households were food insecure last year—and this number has only grown during the pandemic, with nearly 1 in 4 households experiencing food insecurity in 2020. Today on the show, guest host Yuri Rashkin hosts a vital and timely roundtable about food insecurity in our local community with a panel of […]
