From and NPR Story on Chicago research: There's More To Fixing Food Deserts Than Building Grocery Stores
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March 26, 2012 at 4:09 pm
March 26, 2012 at 4:09 pm
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Your Walgreens Experiment Could Make Food Deserts Worse
Dear Mayor Emanuel, Many cities are afflicted with so called food deserts: areas created when corporate supermarkets pulled out of “poor” neighborhoods and corporate fast food chains stepped into the gap. Chicago’s deserts are bigger than most. Yet rather than taking a comprehensive approach, you have chosen to run a poorly designed experiment on an... Read more »
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