WEBVTT COUNCIL IS CONSIDERING A TAX ON JUNK FOOD. EVERYTHING FROM ICE CREAM TO PIZZA... COOKIES AND CHIPS WOULD COST EXTRA ON THE RESERVATION. ACTION 7 NEWS ANCHOR TANYA MENDIS TALKED TO THE GROUP ...

Taxes on products that cause harm remain an evidence-based public health tool to discourage unhealthy behaviors. In the case of soda or junk food taxes, to reduce the consumption of unhealthy ...

People love to talk, think, read and write about food. Ditto taxes. Put those two topics together, and you’re bound to get a dynamic conversation. And so it is with the idea of a junk food tax ...

The whole premise of the easy fix of taxing junk food is basic economics. A tax works by raising the final price to consumers, and for many goods this means that the final quantity of taxed goods ...

A federal tax on so-called junk foods is feasible, says a new review of the topic. Theoretically, such a tax could help fight the obesity epidemic, but it's more likely to help fund the government ...

Nearly all have failed. Now, a community of about 250,000 people has found a way to tax not just sugary beverages, but also junk food. At the same time, it's making fresh produce more affordable ...

See About archive blog posts. Taxes designed to discourage kids from eating junk food got another endorsement Tuesday, this time from the esteemed Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.