In today’s rundown: Women’s real losses are masked by the mancession. | Mapping local food deserts. | D.C. is the second most expensive “state” for renters in the nation.
— In “‘Mancession’ Focus Masks Women’s Real Losses,” Women’s e-news says the “persistent myth about men suffering worse job-loss woes in this recession cries out for a few additional facts, along with Carrie Lukas’ whopper in the Wall Street Journal about the end of the gender wage gap.”
— DCentric takes a look at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s online food desert locator and discusses which low-income areas in the District have the worst access to grocery stores.
— D.C. is second only to Hawaii in the price of rental housing, reports Washington City Paper. Numbers released by the National Low Income Housing Coalition show that a resident in D.C. needs to earn $28.10 an hour to pay no more than 30 percent of their income on a fair market rental.