Neighborhoods and Access to Supermarkets

Poor, mostly black areas face supermarket ‘double jeopardy’, By Emily Alpert Reyes, October 30, 2013, Los Angeles Times: “Poor, mostly black neighborhoods face double jeopardy when it comes to supermarket access, according to a study recently published by the journal Preventive Medicine. That may not sound like news at all: Scholars and activists have long fretted that poor, minority neighborhoods have worse access to supermarkets, which is tied to less healthy diets. But researchers from Johns Hopkins University wanted to see how different neighborhood traits — poverty and racial makeup — were related to the problem…”