{"id":85303,"date":"2009-12-16T13:31:07","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T18:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seattleglobaljustice.org\/?p=507"},"modified":"2009-12-16T13:31:07","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T18:31:07","slug":"congress-steps-up-for-healthy-food-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/85303","title":{"rendered":"Congress Steps Up For Healthy Food For All"},"content":{"rendered":"

From PolicyLink<\/a><\/p>\n

We have some exciting news to share!\u00a0A bi-partisan group in the US House of Representatives took an important step to improve access to healthy foods and create jobs in low-income communities across America.<\/p>\n

Rep. Allyson Schwartz (D-Pa.) and 20 co-sponsors just introduced a resolution in support of a National Fresh Food Financing Initiative (NFFFI), based on a highly successful program in Pennsylvania. (Read the full resolution here.)<\/a><\/p>\n

In partnership with The Food Trust and The Reinvestment Fund, PolicyLink has been working on Capitol Hill for more than a year to lift up this remarkable effort and bring it to national scale.<\/p>\n

With 27 million Americans without access to fresh, affordable food \u2013 and poor and minority communities getting the worst of the problem \u2013 a national effort to expand and build grocery stores, farmers markets, and other healthy food retail in needy communities could be just the kind of bi-partisan, triple-bottom-line solution we need.<\/p>\n

In just the past five years, the Pennsylvania public-private partnership has turned $30 million of state investment into 4,800 jobs, 78 new or expanded fresh-food markets, more than $150 million in additional private investment, and 400,000 people with improved access to fresh, healthy food. (Read how the program works here)<\/a><\/p>\n

This Congressional resolution is just the first step, though. We anticipate a bill creating the NFFFI will be introduced in the Senate in early 2010. We need your help to make that happen.<\/p>\n

Sign on to have your voice heard. <\/a>Tell Congress all communities deserve good jobs, fresh food, and smart, long-term investment<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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