By Frances Dumenci, University Public Affairs Appearing before a United States Senate subcommittee for the second time in as many months, Steven Woolf, M.D., director of the Virginia Commonwealth University Center on Society and Health and professor of family medicine and population health in the VCU School of Medicine, is making a habit of lending…
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A new USDA website features census-tract level data on food deserts across the U.S. Food deserts are low-income communities without ready access to affordable and healthy foods.
The newly released report Worse Case Housing Needs 2009 finds a steep increase in housing-related hardships from 2007 to 2009. During this period the number of renters experiencing worst case needs jumped by more than 20%, from 5.9 million to 7.1 million.