Survive and Thrive

Survive and Thrive

  • Summer 2020
    • Blossoming in Survival
    • College Sports during COVID-19
    • College Enrollment Today
    • Dairy Farming
    • North End Dining
    • Back to School in Chelsea
    • Essential ‘Nonessentials’
    • Gig Jobs in the Pandemic
    • Tourism in Miami
    • Music Therapy
    • Neighborhood Businesses
    • Somerville Restaurants
    • The Ripple Effect
    • Turks in Massachusetts
  • Summer 2019
    • Abortion in America: Then & Now
    • After the Shooting Stops
    • All In the Family (Business)
    • Behind America’s Hometown
    • Boston’s Bakers Rise to the Challenge
    • Crossing from North to South
    • Down and Dirty in Boston
    • Net-Zero from the Ground Up
    • Happy Paradox for Asian Americans
    • What’s up in Boston’s Hip-Hop
    • The Underserved and Climate Change
    • Repairing Right to Repair
    • The Silicone Sickness Movement
  • Summer 2018
    • Come Hear the New Queer
    • Re-crafting Beer Culture
    • Gun Doves To Hawks
    • Korean Culture Hits US
    • Overworked and Undernourished
    • Boston’s Independent Theaters
    • The Power of DNA and How We Use It
    • How Women Rank in College Sports
    • Transgender Athletes: Prejudice or Positivity?
    • Blockchain and Bitcoin Outlook
    • Weeded Out
    • Perception of Veganism
    • More Than a Headache
  • Summer 2017
    • Aging in Boston
    • Boston Hair Care: Diversity & Choice
    • Climate Change in New York City
    • Listening for a Cure
    • Helping Homeless Stay Healthy
    • Study & Deliver
    • The Tech Divide: Teachers vs. Students
    • Together to Stop Youth Violence
    • Pretty hurts: Behind the clean beauty revolution
  • Spring 2017
    • Psychology of feminism
    • Ready to Lead
    • Running in Heels
    • Single Moms: Struggles and Hopes
    • Trips and Treatment
    • Unspoken and Untreated
    • Working at 50+
    • Zero Waste, Infinite Impact
  • Spring 2016
    • Accommodating Transgender
    • All in: Indian Gaming
    • Alone with Food Allergies
    • A Way to Innocence
    • Facing Anti-Muslim Hatred
    • Millennials Move In
    • Our Bodies, Our Struggle
    • Robotics: On a Limb
    • Service Dogs: Fact & Fiction
    • Staying on Pointe
    • Surviving Intimate Trauma
    • Two Homelands, One Love
  • Archive
    • Spring 2015
      • Back to Basics: Holistic Health
      • Beauty Expectations of Black Women
      • Boston 2024 Olympics
      • #BostonFitnessFads
      • Boston Mindfulness
      • Ca$hing in on Cyber$ecurity
      • Exposing Local Anti-Semitism
      • Families Serving Time
      • Fueling the Future
      • Helping the Homeless
      • Heroin: Beyond the Addiction
      • Mobile Language Learning
      • Overdose Oversight
      • Regrowing NE’s Country Roots
      • Robots Among Us
      • Self-image: Beyond the Scale
      • Styling Beantown
      • Tackling Combat Sports
      • The Algorithm Revolution
      • Through Boston Teachers’ Eyes
      • Toxic Nails
      • Wanted: More Women Leaders
      • World-Class Boston?
    • Spring 2014
      • Big Effect of Small-time Football
      • Bike Friendly Boston
      • Birth: Au Naturale
      • Bottle Bill Battle
      • Coastal Conversion
      • Deportation: Brink of Separation
      • Gay, Young and Homeless
      • Girls, STEM and Startups
      • HIV Positive Outlook
      • Immigrant Women & Domestic Abuse
      • Lost at 18
      • Nutrition Literacy
      • Recycling: 1 Bin or 2?
      • Reviving the Written Word
      • Treating Sexual Assault Remotely
      • Vinyl’s Comeback?
    • Fall 2013
      • Big Data in Health Care
      • Helping the Hungry
      • Lost at 18
      • Rehabbing Urban Wildlife
      • Startup Beauties
      • Sustainable Action
    • Spring 2013
      • Asperger’s in Adulthood
      • Chinese Grad Student Boom
      • Community in CrossFit
      • Death by Rx
      • Degreed and Underemployed
      • Geek is Chic
      • Growing Up Muslim
      • Nitrogen Nightmare?
      • Pit Bull Perception
      • Preservin’ the Classics
      • Right to Learn?
      • U.S. Women Made in China
      • Unsolved Gun Violence
      • Young & Homeless
    • Fall 2012
      • Better Workspaces
      • Black Beauty?
      • Broke Not Broken
      • Cheering Challenges
      • Going Social
      • Rainbow Religion
      • Style in Boston
      • The Play State
      • The Sporting Epidemic

Overworked and Undernourished

One of poverty’s most dehumanizing symptoms is food insecurity. When a person is hungry, or simply unsure about where their next meal will come from, they are in survival mode.

Since food insecurity is inextricably linked to other forms of social inequity caused by class, race, and legal status, it’s a problem that cannot be solved without addressing all the surrounding factors as well.

When grocery stores are nowhere to be found, or are too expensive to serve the population in their neighborhood, the problem worsens.

Gentrification and increased cost of living are pushing low-income people further away from grocery stores, which also compounds the problem.

Programs like SNAP can alleviate the burden, but they exclude many people, including new immigrants and homeless people. Alternate solutions, like soup kitchens and affordable mobile markets, are trying to pick up the slack.

Understanding the Impact of Food Insecurity

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Dahlia Snaiderman
In the US, food insecurity affects one in six children, and one in eight adults. Government food aid can help, but it’s almost never enough, and the system leaves many behind.

East Boston’s Food Insecure Find Ways to Eat

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Dahlia Snaiderman
The East Boston Community Soup Kitchen and Fresh Truck are two initiatives that support East Boston’s food insecure community.

Grocery Stores See Low-Income Areas as Risky Investments

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Dahlia Snaiderman
One grocery store for over 40,000 people means that parts of East Boston are food deserts.

Gentrification and Deportations Can Exacerbate Food Insecurity in East Boston

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Dahlia Snaiderman
The defining characteristics of East Boston – high immigrant population, and rampant gentrification – create dynamics that make affording food even harder.

About the Author

  • Dahlia Snaiderman

    Dahlia Snaiderman is a multimedia journalist and podcaster originally from Toronto, Canada. She's currently an intern at Christopher Kimball's Milk Street Radio, and at Boston Free Radio. She loves everything about food and cooking, and used to work in restaurant kitchens before deciding that her other favorite thing- talking- could make for a better career. She thinks in Spanglish.

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