Nearly 24 million Americans live in food deserts, low-income neighborhoods with no access to affordable, fresh, healthy food. As a result, people who live in these areas often have poor diets that ...

Nearly 20% of people in the United States live in food deserts—geographic areas lacking direct access to affordable and healthy fresh fruits and vegetables. Although families know the benefits ...

These findings counter the common notion that policies to reduce supply inequities, such as “food deserts,” could play an important role in reducing nutritional inequality. By contrast, the structural ...