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Thanks for Your Support! Saving SNAP at Arizona Farmers Markets
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We appreciate you all so much, and our farmers, families and communities thank you!
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Let's Play! Introducing the Arizona Recess Toolkit
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Please feel free to share the toolkit with parents, teachers, school staff, school board members, and others!
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Our Arizona Food Systems Network Meeting is Right Around the Corner!
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Join us to learn about how fellow members of the network are working with their community to expand the reach and impact of their farmers markets, food system coalitions, and community organizations. Come share your ideas and successes in this interactive virtual meeting.
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Farm Bill Update: House and Senate Bills Pass
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As of late June, both the Senate and House versions of the 2018 Farm Bill have passed. Now, Congress has to collaborate to create one bill before the 2014 Farm Bill expires. Officials say compromise and action are around the corner.
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Although many rural Americans grow the majority of our food supply, they are widely affected by hunger. Hunger is detrimental to the health and well-being of all food insecure people, but living in a rural area can make living with hunger even worse.
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Soda Taxes: The Vitality of Food Policy
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Sugary beverages are readily available almost anywhere you can buy food. Often, these drinks are cheap, and many consumers tend to gravitate toward them instead of healthier options. Across the country, soda taxes have helped decrease consumption of these beverages and improve public health.
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Places, Policies, Communities: How Your Location Affects Your Health
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Though we traditionally view health as the result of individual choices, there are many factors outside of our control that influence these choices without us always being aware. Where you live plays a vital role in your health. Depending on your location, living a healthy lifestyle may be easy, or it may be more difficult.
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Expanding
SNAP Work Requirements is a Ticket to Poor Health
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Congress has begun its negotiations on the Farm Bill. The House version of the bill proposes expanded, harmful work requirements for SNAP recipients. But what could happen if these detrimental requirements make it into the final bill?
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It is impossible to consider racial equity without understanding the dynamic and complicated history of a U.S. agricultural system birthed from the exploitation, domination, and destruction of entire populations.
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Everything You Need to Know About Maternity Leave in the U.S.
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A new mom explores the brilliant, terrible, wonderful, confusing realities of first-time motherhood. It’s for anybody who wants to be a new mom, is a new mom, was a new mom, or wants really good reasons to never be a new mom.
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Raising Awareness for World Breastfeeding Week
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World Breastfeeding Week is right around the corner! Stay tuned to our
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Let's Celebrate Farmers Markets!
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