Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics Ben Scharadin Last year, roughly one in 10 American households was food insecure. This widespread issue, affecting more than 38 million people , is more than just about food. It’s a byproduct of deep societal inequalities.
“Access to enough affordable healthy food is at the core of multiple forms of inequality, for example, race, gender, environmental,” said Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics Ben Scharadin, a public policy economist who focuses on food insecurity issues. “It impacts health, education, and labor-market participation.”
But Scharadin has found that economics research investigating food access tends to consider the “average” […]
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