Labor & Economy
Down and Out in Modesto

Beth Fladung’s images of a food desert in the midst of the most productive agricultural land in the country.
This is an encore posting from our State of Inequality series
Elizabeth Fladung is a Brooklyn-based, CalArts-trained photojournalist. Her work has appeared in The Nation, La Repubblica, The Fader and Wax Poetics Magazine.

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