How can the Community influence the SF Soda Tax?
Kids are back in school and the long summer nights are dwindling down, which also means that San Francisco’s new fiscal year has begun as of July 1st. The Mayor and Board of Supervisors have finalized the City budget and now communities are determining if their...
A walk down memory lane…
Ah, summer. I miss my lazy summers as a kid… floating on a raft in the pool with not a care in the world, sipping a sugary beverage on a hot summer day. Fast forward to the present day. School has been out for weeks, the fourth of July has come and gone, and...
What’s happened since the Soda Tax went into effect
Four and a half years after the hard-fought SF soda tax was implemented, the results are in: the tax is working as scientists had predicted. In the two years after the tax was implemented, UC researchers* reported a statistically significant decrease in the amount of...