Mooch only cares about the publicity so I doubt she’s shedding any tears over this.
Via National Journal:
With the obesity epidemic in full swing and millions of American living in neighborhoods where fruits and vegetables are hard to come by, the Obama administration thought it saw a solution: fund stores that will stock fresh, affordable produce in these deprived areas.
But now, three years and $500 million into the federal Healthy Food Financing Initiative, there’s a problem: A study suggests it’s not working.
Adding supermarkets to areas with short supplies of fresh produce does not lead to improvements in residents’ diets or health outcomes, according to a report published Monday in the February issue of Health Affairs.
Researchers studied two comparable neighborhoods in Philadelphia, a city at the center of the fight against “food deserts”—the wonkish term for the produce-poor areas.