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Hard Realities of Food Deserts Revealed During East L.A. Bus Tour

URL: http://www.jewishjournal.com/meeting_jews_is_easy/item/boyle_heights_resident_reveals_food_desert_hardships_to_jewish_volunteers_2

Last Sunday, two buses carried volunteers from the Progressive Jewish Alliance, a nonprofit organization, and from the Alliance for Healthy and Responsible Grocery Stores, a coalition. They drove around East Los Angeles neighborhood Boyle Heights, an area which is considered a food desert (food deserts are defined as neighborhoods that don't have a supermarket within .5 miles of the neighborhood's commercial center).

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