Healthy Food America

*Contributing educational technical assistance and resources to state and local advocates and policy makers regarding local sugary drink tax and other sugar reduction policies and countermarketing campaigns. To date, we have supported more than 75 cities, counties, states, tribal nations, and territories. *Serving as a key resource hub for the sugar reduction movement in the US. Our website is a go-to resource for the movement, with an topical fact sheets, briefs, reports, an advocacy toolkit and key data sources ,and received 3000 - 4,000 hits per month. *Convening the National Sugary Drink Tax Workgroup which brings together leaders from national organizations engaged in sugary drink

people with low incomes buy more fruits and vegetables while support- ing local economies and farmers and published a report and peer- reviewed article describing the theory. *Published a study-the first ever-that describes the economic bene- fits and costs of sweetened beverage taxes stratified by household income. *Began work to address deceptive health and nutrition claims on fruit drinks.

tax work collaboratively address sugary drink reduction. *Completed and disseminated a guide to designing equitable sweetened beverage taxes: Investing Sweetened Beverage Tax Revenues to Advance Equity: Recommendations for Drafting Legislation. *Monitored food industry racial justice pledges made in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd to measure promised and actual actions and issued report: Empty Promises or Meaningful Action? Assessing the food and beverage industry's racial justice actions in the wake of George Floyd's murder. *Developed a Theory of Changed for the Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program that describes how financial subsidies help