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Dayton Food Desert…just a few minutes from your front door

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Check out this great article from Cheryl McHenry of WHIO…..click the text for the full article…

Dayton among the worst cities for food hardship

Published: Monday, May 04, 2015 @ 5:30 PM
Updated: Monday, May 04, 2015 @ 5:30 PM
By: Cheryl McHenry

It’s an almost unbelievable statistic: The Dayton Metropolitan area ranks worst in Ohio and 9th in the country in terms of food hardship. That means thousands of people in our area lack access to a full-service grocery store or can’t afford the food when they get there. Nearly every urban area in the Miami Valley has food deserts–including Xenia, Springfield, Troy, and Dayton.

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