Let Bodegas Be Bodegas

Dory Thrasher — 2016-09-20T05:00:00Z

A new rule proposed by the US Department of Agriculture would impose new stocking rules on food stores that accept SNAP benefits, requiring them to carry more perishable and healthy food. This requirement would primarily affect small convenience stores. Dory Thrasher argues that this intervention, despite its beneficent intentions, is unlikely to transform the nutrition environment for low-income households.
In February, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) proposed a rule

- Debates / food, food deserts, bodegas, nutrition policy, SNAP, US Department of Agriculture, nutrition

Food Deserts and Wage Deserts: The Importance of Metaphor in Policy and Activism

Laura Wolf-Powers — 2015-04-28T04:50:00Z

So-called “food deserts,” or neighborhoods deprived of businesses that sell healthy foods, are also poor neighborhoods, where even workers don't make enough for basic living, regardless of food options. Laura Wolf-Powers introduces the concept of “wage deserts” to shed light on these islands of poverty and advocate for economic and policy measures that go beyond access to food.
Since the early 2000s, food deserts—“low income neighborhoods, both urban and rural, that have limited access to

- From the Field / United States, food, poverty, food deserts, wage deserts, Philadelphia, activism

Metropolitics

Let Bodegas Be Bodegas

Food Deserts and Wage Deserts: The Importance of Metaphor in Policy and Activism