Posted on 06/10/2015 4:37:40 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
One in four Baltimore residents lives in a "food desert," according to a new study released Wednesday by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, who pledged to improve access to affordable and healthy food.
In the 2015 Food Environment Map Report, researchers defined food deserts as areas where distance to a supermarket exceeds a quarter-mile; the median household income is at or below 185 percent of the federal poverty level; more than 30 percent of households lack a vehicle; and there's a low score on the so-called healthy food availability index.
"We've never analyzed the food environment at this level before," Rawlings-Blake said, calling the report a "monumental step forward" in making Baltimore a healthier city. "I know that we can increase access to healthy and affordable foods as we move forward to dismantle this inequality in our city."
The study, by the Baltimore Food Policy Initiative and the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, found that children are disproportionately affected, with one in every three living in a food desert. The study also found that African-Americans have less access to quality food.
"When we look at many of our neighborhoods, there are life-expectancy disparities as much as 20 years," Rawlings-Blake said.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
From the size of many of them, I think an “s” is missing.
they burn down the stores and then complain that there aren’t stores around
Yup, let’s see..., let’s invest and build stores, where, the the locals riot and set fires, the Mayor tells the police to stand down..
LOL, most of Wyo., Mont., So. Dak., etc. are food deserts. 0.25 mi.? Harf, harf, harf.
Appears grocery stores chose to not locate in high robbery & violent areas.
Common Cense 101.
ISGAS.
I Scarcely Give A S*%t.
My closest Market is maybe more than a 1/4 and I have walked there many times to get stuff. It is good exercise but albeit without the bullets and cross fire.
“”When we look at many of our neighborhoods, there are life-expectancy disparities as much as 20 years,” Rawlings-Blake said.”
Clearly this is due to a lack of broccoli and acai berries.
Common Sense 101
...damn typo!
DILLIGAF?
“they burn down the stores and then complain that there arent stores around”
or they pilfer them below break even and they eventually close up
Most major grocery chains operate on very thin margins. All it takes is a few regular shoplifters to result in the store operating at a loss, which means it must close.
Do you want a local store in your neighborhood, one that will provide a variety of food on an ongoing basis?
Then don’t rip it off.
researchers defined food deserts as areas where distance to a supermarket exceeds a quarter-mile????!
No steak! No justice!
That gives them a little extra “room to destroy.”
My post was meant to the OP and not you. My mistake.
Whatever it takes to get the liberals to cry in their Wheaties.
The obvious solution is to force white owned companies to open stores in those neighborhoods, refurbish the burned out ones. /sarc
When I was a kid in Minnesota I would walk to the local Byerlys. It too was about a mile as was the Tom Thumb. Now as an adult I own a car because I have a job. Something these people refuse to do. They are waiting for free obamacars.
Are food deserts the same as global warming and acidic ocean?
What next for a crisis?
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