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Build It and They Will Come? Food Deserts and the Entry of New Supermarkets
Food deserts are communities without a supermarket, found primarily in low-income neighborhoods. We have evidence from a variety of studies that the diet of folks living in these areas is less than nutritious, at least based on USDA criteria.
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