Berkeley’s soda tax maybe seems to be working?

In March of 2015 Berkeley, California, our hometown, enacted the US’s first soda tax on sugary drinks. The one penny per ounce tax on distributors, while controversial on a number of levels, appears to be working; a recent study showed a 21% drop in consumption of sugary beverages in low-income neighborhoods.

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