Policy Analysis

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Building a Better Metric: The Residualized Accessibility Index

Income, density, and car ownership explain 81% of county-level food-security vulnerability; residualization separates the structural signal from the rest.

Nov 2025 · Methodology

The Food Security Gap: How COVID Widened Inequality

County-wide SNAP participation stayed flat during the pandemic. But a census tract analysis of 408 neighborhoods reveals what aggregate data hides: food…

Oct 2025 · Food Security