Episode 143: Ken Kolb on Retail Inequality

The Checkout speaks with Professor Ken Kolb about why incremental efforts to increase access to healthy foods won’t result in systemic changes. Food deserts are not actually about food. They are about inequality.

Ken Kolb is a Professor and Chair of Sociology at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. He is the author of Retail Inequality: Reframing the Food Desert Debate. https://www.furman.edu/news/2022/03/11/interview-with-dr-kenneth-kolb-sociology-professor-and-author-of-retail-inequality/

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