
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


Steven Malanga joins Seth Barron to discuss efforts to restrict dollar stores in cities across the country—the subject of Malanga's popular story for City Journal, "Unjust Deserts."
For nearly 20 years, "food deserts"—neighborhoods without supermarkets—have captured the attention of public officials, activists, and the media, who often blame the situation on dollar-discount stores in these areas. These stores, it's claimed, drive out supermarkets with their low prices and saturate poor neighborhoods with junk food. But are dollar stores really to blame for bad diets?
By Manhattan Institute4.7
629629 ratings
Steven Malanga joins Seth Barron to discuss efforts to restrict dollar stores in cities across the country—the subject of Malanga's popular story for City Journal, "Unjust Deserts."
For nearly 20 years, "food deserts"—neighborhoods without supermarkets—have captured the attention of public officials, activists, and the media, who often blame the situation on dollar-discount stores in these areas. These stores, it's claimed, drive out supermarkets with their low prices and saturate poor neighborhoods with junk food. But are dollar stores really to blame for bad diets?

3,314 Listeners

2,279 Listeners

708 Listeners

1,839 Listeners

1,402 Listeners

5,168 Listeners

4,883 Listeners

497 Listeners

6,611 Listeners

2,014 Listeners

2,836 Listeners

799 Listeners

1,230 Listeners

1,049 Listeners

1,089 Listeners