The Fresh Bucks program is so successful, but we NEED it here every year!
Please call Seattle Mayor’s Mike McGinn on Thursday 9/5 to ask him to put $200k in the 2014
City budget to fund Fresh Bucks program 206-684-4000
Fresh Bucks……..
- is a program that gives low income families in our city more food dollars to eat healthy.
- gives EBT-users $1 to $1 match up to $10 at one visit at a market per day.
- boosts business for our local farmers and farmers markets, putting dollars back into Washington’s local economy.
In the first month this year Fresh Bucks in Seattle was very successful.
There was 1,331 EBT transaction, that had bring in over $18,000 of SNAP/Food Stamp dollars and had distributing around $12,500 in Fresh Bucks.
Tell Mayor Mike McGinn on Thursday 9/5 to ask him to put $200k in the 2014 City budget to fund Fresh Bucks program. 206-684-4000 mike.mcginn@seattle.gov