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Healhy Food Financing Initiative

There are many neighborhoods that have very little access to farmers markets or places where they can access fresh vegetables, fruits, and other healthy foods for reasonable prices. These areas are called "food deserts", and these are the places where a lot of obesity can be traced too. In 2011 The Obama Administration introduced the Healthy Food Financing Initiative, the goal of the program is to "create jobs and economic development, and establish market opportunities for farmers and ranchers," as described by the secretary of agriculture, Tom Vilsack.[1] The initiative was also going to work along with Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" campaign, which is a movement to help end obesity in children.