SAN ANTONIO – Food deserts are not a new problem in San Antonio. In 2015, the City of San Antonio and Metro Health said 28% of people in town live in one. The term refers to areas where ...

Such areas are called food deserts — where full-service grocery stores are scarce or absent entirely, forcing families to rely on fast-food restaurants, convenience stores or dollar stores that ...

WEST COLUMBIA — Gloria Alonzo often finds herself facing an impossible choice: feeding her family or paying the bills. With the cost of food and household items ramping up to over $300 a week ...

The Healthy Food Access for All Americans Act would provide incentives to food providers to expand access to healthy foods in underserved communities and reduce the number of food deserts nationwide.

City leaders say they’re taking steps to address the food deserts. A food desert is defined as an area without access to fresh food within a mile, and most people living there are low-income.

Food deserts are areas where residents lack access to affordable and nutritious food, particularly fresh produce. Federal funding cuts to food assistance programs have exacerbated the challenges ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - Food deserts are places where people have a hard time accessing grocery stores with fresh and nutritious food. Springfield has food deserts, many in the western half of ...

one area non-profit is hoping to tackle the issues and provide residents in food deserts with fresh produce. On Saturday, The Obodo Collective, in partnership with the Southern Nevada Health ...

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — North Charleston residents are expressing frustration over the lack of progress in addressing food deserts in their community, a problem that has persisted for ...

Akron Beacon Journal reporter Tawney Beans and photojournalist Mike Cardew spent the past year delving into Akron's food deserts and telling the stories of the people living within them who ...

60S AND LOWER 70S. WELL, LOCAL NONPROFIT SAYS AROUND 30% OF PEOPLE IN OUR STATE LIVE IN PLACES CONSIDERED FOOD DESERTS. KOAT U-N-M HEALTH EXPERT DOCTOR ASHE SPOKE WITH DARLENE MELENDEZ ABOUT WHAT ...

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