{"id":89080,"date":"2021-12-13T12:20:42","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T17:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/?p=89080"},"modified":"2021-12-13T12:20:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T17:20:46","slug":"why-grocery-stores-are-avoiding-black-neighborhoods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/why-grocery-stores-are-avoiding-black-neighborhoods\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Grocery Stores Are Avoiding Black Neighborhoods"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A food desert is an area with low-access to healthy and affordable food. About 19 million people in America live in a food desert, and it disproportionately affects Black communities. Despite nationwide efforts to improve poor food environments, many of the biggest names in America\u2019s grocery industry continue to avoid these neighborhoods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"geodir-embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why Grocery Stores Are Avoiding Black Neighborhoods\" width=\"810\" height=\"456\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Rd8J-9uUnfc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the midst of a worldwide pandemic and raging protests against police brutality, there\u2019s another silent crisis wreaking havoc on America\u2019s most vulnerable communities: food deserts. The USDA defines a food desert as a place where at least a third of the population lives greater than one mile away from a supermarket for urban areas, or greater than 10 miles for rural areas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By this definition, about 19 million people in America live in a food desert. The lack of grocery stores in many poor, Black neighborhoods has been a big topic in public policy since Michelle Obama\u2019s \u201cLet\u2019s Move\u201d campaign in 2010. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The initiative was designed to reduce childhood obesity by providing better food in schools and by bringing healthier options to low-income communities using public and private sector funding. Another chief goal of the program was to eliminate food deserts in America within seven years. Despite nationwide efforts to improve poor food environments, many Americans say this problem persists today. Watch this video to find out more about the country\u2019s food deserts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A food desert is an area with low-access to healthy and affordable food. About 19 million people in America live in a food desert, and it disproportionately affects Black communities. Despite nationwide efforts to improve poor food environments, many of the biggest names in America\u2019s grocery industry continue to avoid these neighborhoods. In the midst [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89082,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,148,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-posts","category-events-sports-etc","category-voting-politics-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}