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Milwaukee County committee declares 'food apartheid' a public health emergency, directs equity-focused response
Summary
The Committee on Finance voted 7–0 to recommend adoption of a resolution declaring food apartheid a public health emergency, directing DHHS and the Office of Equity to measure food access gaps, partner with community and municipal leaders, include measures in the county's racial equity budgeting tool, and return actionable proposals by the March
Milwaukee County’s Committee on Finance recommended adoption of a resolution declaring “food apartheid” a public health emergency and directing county agencies to take equity-focused action to address persistent food access gaps.
The resolution, introduced by Chairwoman Nicholson Bovell and co-sponsored by multiple supervisors, frames “food apartheid” as a policy-driven system of segregation and disinvestment that has left some neighborhoods without…
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