In a Florida ‘food desert,‘ a gnawing sense of being left behind ...Middle East

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JACKSONVILLE: Sitting outside her modest home in Jacksonville, Florida, on a street lined with nondescript buildings in faded shades of blue, a weary Brenda Jenkins expresses a simple wish: to be able to buy fresh fruit and produce in her own neighborhood.It sounds simple enough. But for people like her, one of the 39 million Americans living in “food deserts” -- most of them low-income urban dwellers, and predominantly people of color -- fresh food is practically inaccessible.In a country with often poor mass transit and persistent pockets of poverty, getting to grocery stores that sell fresh food can be daunting.“It’s very tiring,“ said the 26-year-old Jenkins, a mother of three.The phrase

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