Stacks of fruit sit on a vendor's cart outside City Hall in lower Manhattan.

30 Issues in 30 Days: City-Owned Grocery Stores?

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New York City would not be the first city in America to open a publicly-owned grocery store. Yasmin Tayag, staff writer at The Atlantic, talks about how other municipalities have fared in this experiment, Zohran Mamdani's grocery store proposal and the skepticism around it.

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