Food deserts growing in Ohio, other states
An interactive map of neighborhoods lacking easy access to fresh food was released late last month. Ohio — as well as every other state — is flecked with black census tracts that meet the group’s definition of food deserts. It didn’t have to be this way, said the group that produced the map, the Institute for Local Self Reliance. If the federal government hadn’t stopped enforcing a Depression-era antitrust law in the early 1980s, independent grocery stores would still be thriving in small towns and in poor urban neighborhoods, it said. “Since the early 1980s, ...
