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

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