Welcome to Repost Sundays. Original Post found on TomDispatch Here, to my mind, was one strange aspect of the political convention season just past: since the great meltdown of 2008, brilliantly engineered by various giant financial institutions gone wild, we’ve seen a collapse in the wealth of middle-class African Americans and Hispanics, and a significantContinue reading “Confessions of a Former Republican”
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Whole Foods, Detroit, and Englewood, Chicago.
If you haven’t ever read about the food options available in lower-economic neighborhoods, and how there’s usually one small, not well stocked, dimly lit, poorly serviced supermarket (if even that) and the rest of the options are corner stores, combined with the options presented often being calorie-heavy and nutritionally-light, this is not the place toContinue reading “Whole Foods, Detroit, and Englewood, Chicago.”
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