Ayana Explains the Hypocrisy of the Infant Formula Shortage Crisis

I scream! You scream! We all scream but only some voices are heard! *womp womp*

Works Used: 

1. “Baby Formula Factory Says Its Still Months Away From Production” Laura Reiley and Same Easter, Washington Post, May 14, 2022.

2. “President’s 2021 Budget Would Cut Food Assistance for Millions and Radically Restructure SNAP” by Dottie Rosenbaum and Zoe Neuberger, February 18, 2020 https://www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/presidents-2021-budget-would-cut-food-assistance-for-millions-and; and Changes in SNAP Benefit Levels and Food Spending and Diet Quality: Simulations from the National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey, MAY 12, 2022 | BY MICHELE VER PLOEG AND CHEN ZHEN, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities at https://www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/changes-in-snap-benefit-levels-and-food-spending-and-diet-quality

3. “Creating Healthy Communities” discussion of the Cuyahoga County Planning Commission at https://www.countyplanning.us/projects/creating-healthy-communities/

4. “East Side Cleveland to be a food desert? Regional supermarket chain plans closure” Alexander Stott, April 22, 2022 at https://www.liberationnews.org/east-side-cleveland-to-be-a-food-desert-regional-supermarket-chain-plans-closure/

5. Food Deserts in the United States, POSTED FEBRUARY 13, 2021, BY THE ANNIE E. CASEY FOUNDATION

6. “10 Corner Stores, 1 Supermarket: New Orleans Food Desert Encourages Poor Nutrition” published at https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/ex/sustainablecitiescollective/10-corner-stores-1-supermarket-new-orleans-food-desert-encourages-poor/192876/

7. America’s Healthy Food Financing Initiative at investinginfood.com

8. “What’s a Food Desert?” published by The Health Gap at https://closingthehealthgap.org/culture-of-health/key-issues/food-desserts/

9. “Race, Ethnicity, WIC Participation, and Infant Health Disparities in the United States” by Alexander Testa, PhD. and Dylan B. Jackson PhD., Annals of Epidemiology, Volume 58, June 2021, Pages 22-28 at https://www.sciencedirect.com/

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