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What Next - Can More Grocery Stores Fix Food Deserts?

What Next - Can More Grocery Stores Fix Food Deserts?

If you build it, they still might not come.

Slate Daily Feed · Slate

December 19, 202422m 51s

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Show Notes

How do you keep a grocery store open in a small or low-income community? The answer might involve regulating big box stores like Walmart and Kroger.


Guest: Molly Parker, investigative reporter for Capitol News Illinois and a Local Reporting Network fellow at ProPublica.


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Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme and Rob Gunther.


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