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The Obama Administration said it would provide $400 million for its Healthy Food Financing Initiative, which is modeled on a successful Pennsylvania program that in the last five years has led to more than 80 supermarkets being set up in “food deserts” — areas that were previously underserved by sellers of healthy food.

First Lady Michelle Obama said the new national program aims to eliminate food deserts — where the only food sources are typically convenience stores or gas stations — in the next seven years.

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“U.S. launches program to end ‘food deserts’,” February 19, 2010. Reuters.

We’ll see how legislating this works; likely a much larger structure needs to be supported and reconstructed for this to flourish within.