Why Ban Dollar Stores?
City Journal Audio
Manhattan Institute
4.8 • 615 Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2020
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Steven Malanga joins Seth Barron to discuss efforts to restrict dollar stores in cities across the country—the subject of Malanga’s popular story for City Journal, “Unjust Deserts.”
For nearly 20 years, “food deserts”—neighborhoods without supermarkets—have captured the attention of public officials, activists, and the media, who often blame the situation on dollar-discount stores in these areas. These stores, it’s claimed, drive out supermarkets with their low prices and saturate poor neighborhoods with junk food. But are dollar stores really to blame for bad diets?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Ten Blocks podcast. This is Brian Anderson, the editor of City Journal. |
| 0:04.9 | Coming up on today's show, my colleague Seth Barron and Steve Malanga will discuss a hugely popular piece that Steve wrote recently |
| 0:12.0 | about the battle over dollar stores in cities across the country. It struck a nerve with readers from across the political spectrum. |
| 0:20.0 | Steve explains what the fuss is all about. |
| 0:23.0 | But before we get started with the show, I wanted to tell our regular readers that the winter 2020 issue of City Journal is hot off the press and should be arriving in your mailboxes soon. |
| 0:34.3 | It's a super strong lineup for the first issue of the new year and decade, including |
| 0:38.4 | John Tierney on the needless panic over disposable plastic. Nicole Jelineus on how autonomous |
| 0:44.8 | vehicles could boost Detroit's economy. Chris Rufo on Los Angeles's epidemic of drug addiction. |
| 0:51.6 | Ralph Manguel on how incarceration of fathers affects children, Jim |
| 0:56.6 | Miggs on the promise of next generation nuclear power, and much more. If you're interested |
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| 1:29.8 | That's it for the introduction. |
| 1:31.5 | The conversation about dollar stores between Seth Barron and Steve Malaga begins after this. Hello again, everyone. |
| 1:50.3 | This is your host for today, Seth Barron. |
| 1:52.3 | Joining me in the studio is City Journal's senior editor, Steve Melangor. |
| 1:57.5 | Steve wrote a terrific piece for the website that got a lot of attention on social media last week, |
| 2:02.6 | so he thought he would get him on the podcast to talk about it. |
| 2:05.6 | The piece is called unjust deserts, or unjust desserts. |
| 2:10.6 | I'm not sure how you'd want to stress that, and it shines a light on concerted efforts by cities across the country |
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