Youth investigators speak out about Stop & Shop price disparities
Young volunteers with the Hyde Square Task Force discovered racial disparities in supermarket prices
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Young volunteers with the Hyde Square Task Force discovered racial disparities in supermarket prices
The Massachusetts teens are asking why the same groceries cost noticeably more at Stop & Shop's Jamaica Plain store compared to the Dedham location.
Five high school students formed a team to study and compare food prices at Stop & Shop in a lower-income community in Jamaica Plain where he lives as compared to a Stop & Shop in Dedham.
Several youth organizers with the Hyde Square Task Force who were researching inflation learned about how low-income shoppers often pay more for the same goods than shoppers in more affluent areas, and they wanted to test out that theory themselves.
HOMELESS CENSUS At the end of January, Mayor Michelle Wu led a group of volunteers, including U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development officials, City