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Re:The Cost of Being Poor: Why It Costs So Much to Be Poor i... by panick21_ on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @02:46AM (#34077810)
Funny I live in a capitalist society and we don't have many of these food deserts.

Its almost as if not every capitalist country has horrendously idiotic city planning.

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Re:The Cost of Being Poor: Why It Costs So Much to Be Poor i... by maxerickson on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @06:56AM (#34079487)
Most of the area of food deserts (as defined by the USDA) is rural. People live out in the country (often by choice) and then show up in statistics saying that there are lots of people that have low access to food.

https://www.aecf.org/blog/exploring-americas-food-deserts

Poor areas in cities will often not have an immediate, large, well stocked grocery store, but they are probably only a mile or two away from one, and there will certainly be smaller stores with some fresh items.

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