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Don’t Have Enough on Your Plate? Connecting High Rates of COVID-19 to Food Apartheids
Don’t Have Enough on Your Plate? Connecting High Rates of COVID-19 to Food Apartheids

COVID-19 has given us enough on our plates. But what about people who don’t have enough food on theirs to face it? The risk of food insecurity is higher among low-income populations in communities known as food deserts. In addition to these socioeconomic factors, food apartheid causes significant public health problems. In this two part article series, Summer Journalism Fellow Charlotte Ehlers draws connections between food insecurity, its related underlying public health issues, and higher rates of COVID-19 in affected communities.

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US, Journalism Fellowship, News & AnalysisCharlotte Ehlersfood apartheids, food, COVID19, Houston, urban farming, farms, food insecurity, cost, delivery, grocery, health, public health, socioeconomic disparities, affordable, healthy, neighborhood, disparity, inequity, economy, economic
Expensive Zip-Codes: China’s Burgeoning Real Estate Market in First-Tier Cities
Expensive Zip-Codes: China’s Burgeoning Real Estate Market in First-Tier Cities

In the world’s second largest economy, real estate plays a substantial role for both commercial and private investment: due to lack of diversity in investment strategy, the private real estate market in China has become a favored path for private owners trying to maintain and invest their assets.

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All, Finance & Business, International, News & AnalysisMaxwell ChungChina, real estate, investment, government, regulation, market, economics, business, finance, affordable, housing