NY Daily News, January 4, 2017: (Opinion) Neighborhoods parched for books

"And if you think bookstores are a relative indulgence for neighborhoods that lack good supermarkets, you miss the point. We recently conducted a study in Detroit, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., to learn about the availability of books. In each city, we walked, biked and drove street by street in a low-income and a middle-income neighborhood, and counted how many books were available for sale. The disparity was stunning. One middle-income neighborhood had one book available per every two children living in the neighborhood. In a nearby low-income neighborhood, 830 children would have to share a single book. Across the three cities, middle-income neighborhoods had 16 times more books available for sale than low-income neighborhoods."