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By Laura Capps Costs of living on the Central Coast are skyrocketing, and poverty maintains a tight grip on the lives of too many of our residents. The 2020 Census calculated a 15.2% poverty rate for Santa Barbara County, one of the highest rates in the state that has the highest rate in the country.
Anyone who has been to the grocery store recently knows that $50 just doesn’t stretch as far as it used to. Grocery costs have increased rapidly and made it even harder to access nutritious food. Finding and choosing healthy options can feel impossible when unhealthy food is so much more available and affordable in communities like South Central Los Angeles with few grocery stores and many fast food places.