The D.C. Council this afternoon approved a slightly scaled back tax on soft drinks–6 percent, as opposed to 1 cent per ounce–but enough to provide the $6.5 million needed annually to fully fund improved school meal and other programs under “Healthy Schools” legislation. “I am pleased to share the great news that the Healthy Schools Act has been […]
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A proposed tax on soft drinks to fund “Healthy Schools” legislation appears to be on shaky ground at best and may be dead on arrival. Meanwhile, social service advocates are engaged in a mad scramble to stave off cuts to services for the poor. While some members of the D.C. Council are talking about increasing […]
Since stumbling into the school food story in the kitchen at my daughter’s elementary school, those posts and my most recent series on food preparation in the Berkeley, CA, school district has been appearing also at Grist, the online environmental magazine. My editor there, Bonnie Powell, who some of you might recognize as the founder of […]
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