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[quote=Anonymous]https://www.dcpolicycenter.org/publications/food-access-dc-deeply-connected-poverty-transportation/ Food deserts. I lived in one when I taught in public school in Baltimore. It was a real challenge as I didn’t have a car and getting to the grocery store involved two bus changes and nearly an hour on the bus, so I couldn’t go frequently. I could only carry so much food, and adding ice packs or such so it wouldn’t spoil further limited what I could buy because it was so heavy. I ate mostly stuff I could buy at the CVS, the Subway, the McDonalds, and the chicken box restaurant. It was not a healthy balanced diet. My students got free school lunch and they routinely would not eat the fruit, which would end up on the “share” table and then be trashed. I recall looking at it longingly. [/quote]
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