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Grocery Fund Would Help Kickstart Access to Food
Posted by Nick Gilmore in Virginia's News on February 26, 2018

Credit: Stuart Rankin / Flickr
A bipartisan push to increase access to healthy foods is making its way through the General Assembly. The proposal would create the Grocery Investment Fund, to help get new businesses off the ground in areas that need them. Mallory Noe-Payne reports.
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