In a 2015 The New York Times article entitled,“See No Junk Food, Buy No Junk Food,” Thomas A. Farley and Russell Sykes claim that the federal government has the power to enforce stores in low-income areas to provide more quantities of fresh fruits and vegetables. Farley and Sykes support their claim by stating that areas with high-income ZIP codes have three times as many supermarket as areas with low-income ZIP codes. The solution that they suggest for this problem is banning the use of food stamps for junk foods and giving extra money to the food stamp users when they buy healthy foods. Another problem that they mention is small stores use less shelf space for healthy food and more shelf space for junk food. The convenience stores use 30
