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Internet Access and the New Divide
While we still talk about “the” Internet, we increasingly have two separate access marketplaces: high-speed wired and second-class wireless. High-speed access is a superhighway for those who can afford it, while racial minorities and poorer and rural Americans must make do with a bike path.
Internet  digital  justice  access  poverty  fave 
december 2011 by patrix
Food Deserts
There are 2.3 million people living in America with no car and without a supermarket within a one-mile radius. People living in these "food deserts" are often obese and unhealthy because they're stuck eating junk food from the convenience store. Slate has prepared an interactive map of the counties with the most people who live in food deserts as defined above.

The ones least likely with a car are also the most likely to live in neighborhoods where you need one.
food  supermarkets  access  poverty  fave 
january 2011 by patrix

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