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The Politics of Food: Our Nation’s First Soda Tax and its Potential Impact Locally

BY ELLINA BERDICHEVSKY — In November 2014, 75% of voters in Berkeley, California, succeeded in supporting the nation’s first tax on soda. The tax was in the amount of a penny per ounce, or about twelve cents a can, with all tax proceeds going into the City of Berkeley’s general fund. Local Florida news reporters […]