Poverty-Fighting Startups
Fighting poverty is a social and political problem. It is simply a question of will. We have enough wealth on earth to provide food, clothing, and housing to every single human being. Why don&#x27;t we do it? That&#x27;s a political question. The technology is trivial.<p>&gt;“One of my ambitions is to help our users put more food on the table,” says Jimmy Chen, the founder of Propel. His company makes a mobile app called FreshEBT that helps people among the U.S.’s 43 million recipients of the electronic benefit transfer (EBT) service to stretch their food-stamp benefits as far as possible.<p>I read &quot;we&#x27;re here to somehow insert fees between you and your food stamp money&quot;. The self delusion of these people is incredible.