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Food Desert in Dallas

               According to the USDA, a “food desert,” is a low income area where a substantial number of residents have low access to a supermarket or grocery store. The southern part of Dallas, one of the top ten largest cities in America, fits the description to a tee. With an interstate dividing the city, a vast majority of grocery stores are located on the north side of that interstate. But when you look for a grocery store on the south side? Google pulls up corner store after…

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Added by Miranda Snodgrass on December 4, 2017 at 10:52am — 1 Comment

The Poverty Problem is A Segregation Problem

 Income inequality is growing and economic mobility is tightening, not just in Dallas, but all over and this is eating away at the American Dream. Dallas, an area that is geographically limited, is a great example of just how much income inequality is increasing and eating away at the middle class. Opportunity of geographic growth is limited to the predominantly white residents of the citizens in the northern neighborhoods and districts of the city. Leaving the south end, the area with most…

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Added by Miranda Snodgrass on December 2, 2017 at 9:13pm — No Comments

Income Segregation in Dallas

Article One:

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/06/29/in-greater-dallas-area-segregation-by-income-and-race/

                  In 2015, Pew Research did a study showing just how segregated Dallas, Texas was not just by race but also by income. Income segregation shows segregation of socioeconomic groups not just in the numbers of how much a…

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Added by Miranda Snodgrass on December 2, 2017 at 8:55pm — No Comments

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