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When Feeding America Changed Its Food Allocation System to One

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When Feeding America changed its food allocation system to one that resembled a market, each food program was given a number of "shares" that they could use in bidding against other food programs for the types of food that best met the needs of the people using their programs.Using these "shares" helped answer which of the following fundamental economic questions?


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