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When the nation's top health official criticizes your restaurant brand

Working Lunch: This week's political podcast discusses RFK Jr.'s recent attack of Dunkin' and Starbucks, criticizing the amount of sugar in some of their beverages. Who will be the next target?

In this week’s Working Lunch, Joe Kefauver and Franklin Coley of Align Public Strategies discuss recent news in which U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. blasted two prominent restaurant chains—Dunkin' and Starbucks—for the amount of sugar in some of their drink offerings.

Who will be the next target?

In addition, Fair Share healthcare legislation, designed to make healthcare more affordable, has been largely dormant for a decade. But now bills are emerging in Washington state, California, Oregon and Colorado. Is this an anomaly, or are we looking at the next big battle?

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