Fourth graders at the Boys & Girls Club visit Truman's new mobile grocery store.
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The mobile market is a donated, retrofitted city bus.
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Inside, bins packed with produce have replaced the bus seats.
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Latonya Jordan stopped by the market while enrolling her son, Dante, at the Boys and Girls Club. Jordan says the produce here is a lot cheaper for her than what she'd find at a regular grocery store.
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The store also takes EBT cards.
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CiCi Rojas, with Truman Medical Centers, helped develop the market.
People living in parts of Kansas City that aren’t near a big grocery store now have another food option. But it’s not your typical grocery store, and it’s not run by your typical vendor.
Residents of Kansas City have long financed public health, ambulance and indigent health services through a property tax which last year, brought in nearly $50 million.
