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Food Service Director Urges State to Use Sugary Beverage Tax Revenue to Fund School Meals
Summary
A food service director and education advocates told the Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee that implementing a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages could both reduce consumption and fund school meal programs, which they said have been scaled back since March 2020.
Stephanie (last name not specified), a school food service director, told the Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee that sugar-sweetened beverages are common in schools and that revenue from a sugary beverage tax could be used to restore and fund school meal programs.
She said this school year is the first since March 2020 that public schools in the state are largely removed from government-funded universal free meals. "We've…
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