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You can help feed your neighbor, and make us all healthier.

The Rhode Island Food Bank reports that one in four Rhode Island families is hungry – the highest level of food insecurity in nearly a century. Yet at the same time, our state has the 11th highest rate of child obesity in the nation. It doesn’t seem possible. Our kids don’t have access to healthy foods, and what they do have isn’t exactly good for them.

But you can do something about it.

A tax on unhealthy sugary drinks like the one currently proposed in the general assembly would inject over $30 million into our economy and help alleviate hunger for more than 140,000 SNAP recipients, including over 45,000 children across our state.