�Households located in pitiful neighborhoods pay off more for the like items than people living in loaded ones, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research.
Author Debabrata Talukdar (Columbia University) examines the impact of what has been dubbed the "ghetto tax" on low-income individuals. His study found that the critical factor in how lots a family spends on groceries is whether it has access to a car. "Arguably, as the bigger, more cost-efficient stores move out, the poor increasingly are likely to find themselves choosing betwixt traveling further to purchase nutritious, competitively priced groceries or paying inflated prices for inferiority, processed foods at nook stores," Talukdar writes.
According to the findings, those without access to cars - which are exclusively poor households, just include only 40 percent of poor households - pay higher prices for groceries than households with access to a
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Monday, 18 August 2008
Singing monks offer to save Amy Winehouse
An unlikely group has issued an invitation to Amy Winehouse, offering the troubled vocaliser shelter. It's not a rock band, the Church of Scientology, Narcotics Anonymous or regular a Saudi Arabian homage. No, Winehouse's unlikely supporters are a group of Austrian monks.
The Cistercian Monks Of Stift Heiligenkreuz are based in Vienna, Austria, and they are a little apprehensive about poor Amy. She certainly has a prissy voice, only she doesn't seem to be doing too well. So the brothers would like to bring her over for some sedate, pious R&R.
"For 10 minutes I liked [Back to Black, Winehouse's 2006 album]," Brother Johannes Paul Chavanne explained to the Daily Telegraph. "But when I read the lyrics I thought it was sad. I would like to invite her here - I feel sympathetic to people care her. She could persist a hebdomad or deuce and discuss the big questions of life - faith power be an answer for her."
These monks for certain seem to be on the right track. Their own recent album � a recording of Gregorian chants called Chant: Music for Paradise - topped the charts in Austria and made the UK's Top 10. And their connection to Winehouse runs deeper than general human empathy � they likewise share the same label, Universal.
If Winehouse does decide to retire for a while outside Vienna, she needn't occupy that the Cistercian Monks Of Stift Heiligenkreuz are overly ascetic. 25-year-old Brother Johannes Paul Chavanne has internet access in his cell, the Telegraph reports, so Winehouse could regular bring her beehive, her smokes, and a couplet of her entourage. Who knows, maybe Pete Doherty fancies some lessons in Gregorian chanting?
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Friday, 8 August 2008
Housemates in new eviction shock
For the first time in the history of 'Big Brother', the housemates have been allowed to discuss nominations with each other.
In the latest development on the show, the four housemates living in 'Heaven' - Stuart, Rex, Mikey and Mohamed - were given access to a fuel pod in the garden where they could plot nominations.
Only two of the quartet could enter the pod at whatever time and they were forbidden to talk about anything simply nominations.
The tetrad decided to nominate Dale, Luke and Darnell this week.
The odds on Kathreya winning the show hold lengthened from 15/8 to 2/1.
Commenting, Ladbrokes spokesman Nick Weinberg said: "The cookie monster's world is crumbling all round her. She's friendless and is a vulnerable favourite."
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