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Poverty, the Cities, and the Food Delivery System

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Donald R. Marion
Donald R. Marion*
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Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Massachusetts
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Entering the decade of the 80's, the U.S. faces a number of difficult challenges carried over from the decade just ended. A pressing domestic problem is that of poverty, and its many manifestations. Major cities are confronted with a particularly difficult problem. Concentrations of low-income persons, unemployment, congestion, dilapidated structures, high crime rates, struggling education systems, and deteriorated business and economic conditions, create a seemingly impossible morass of redevelopment problems. One aspect of the decline of the cities that has had particularly serious consequences, is the gradual deterioration of the food delivery system there. It is especially critical because of its implications for the diets and budgets of low-income families.

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Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , October 1980 , pp. 55 - 60
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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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Footnotes

This paper was developed from the beginnings of a study supported by USDA/ESCS, and earlier work at the University of Massachusetts. The author wishes to acknowledge the support of ESCS/NED during the year 1979–80 (J. E. Lee, R. E. Frye, C. R. Handy, et al. and the continuing interest.

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