Does banning use of food stamps for soda reduce obesity?
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New York City's now-rejected push to ban the use of food stamps to purchase soda was a political pariah from the get-go. The proposal, sent to the Obama administration last fall, had the relatively rare ability to draw the ire of both soft drink lobbyists and advocates for the poor and underfed.
On Friday, the USDA shot down the idea, which would have required a waiver from the food stamps program. In a letter to a New York state official, quoted by the New York Times, the Agriculture Department "wrote that the waiver the city sought was denied because of the logistical difficulty of sorting out which beverages could or could not be purchased with food stamps," among other reasons.
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