How Dollar Stores Became Magnets for Crime and Killing
Discount chains are thriving — while fostering violence and neglect in poor communities.
Family Dollar Variety Store. Family Dollar is a Subsidiary of Dollar Tree – Marion – Circa September 2019 (Shutterstock) By Alec MacGillis, ProPublica When Jolanda Woods was growing up in North St. Louis, in the 1970s and early ’80s, she and her friends would take the bus to the stores downtown, on 14th Street, or […]