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Food Deserts
Episode 634

Food Deserts

In a city where grocery stores vanished and corporate power filled the gap, one woman is feeding Woonsocket while an old law stirs back to life.

99% Invisible · Jayson De Leon, Chris Berube

July 8, 202538m 15s

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Show Notes

How did millions of Americans end up living in neighborhoods where finding fresh food is harder than ever, and why is the problem by design, not accident? The answer rests in a major policy shift that fundamentally altered the American food landscape.

Food Deserts

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