The owners of US ships responsible for delivering food aid are now in line to receive millions of dollars in new subsidies as a result of proposed reform, news reports say. Under current law, almost all American food aid – worth around $1.8 billion in 2014 – must be purchased in the United States, and at least half of it must be transported on US-flagged vessels, a combination that costs 25-50 percent more than on the open market.
Year: 2015
Mapped: A world at war
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Beyond brothels: Farms and fisheries are frontier of human trafficking
When the U.S. State Department released its annual human trafficking report on Monday, it told distressingly familiar tales of forced sex work and housekeepers kept against their will. But this year, one area got special attention: Slavery in the global supply chains of agriculture, fishing and aquaculture.
How Americans can lose a lot of weight without giving up a single calorie
You’ve heard for years that the French and Japanese are much thinner than Americans because their diets are so much better than ours. A new mathematical model assesses why that is and how much thinner Americans could be if they changed their eating habits.
Living like a fugitive: The attempted killing of a famed Pakistani newsman is one example of a widespread backlash
The most famous television journalist in Pakistan lives like a fugitive. Hamid Mir tells no one where he is going, how he will get there or where he will spend the night.
Starvation as a product of war
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New York plans $15-an-hour minimum wage for fast food
The labor protest movement that fast-food workers in New York City began nearly three years ago has led to higher wages for workers all across the country. On Wednesday, it paid off for the people who started it.
Presidential candidates answer: How will you help the hungry and poor?
A Christian group against poverty and hunger called Circle of Protection has asked U.S. presidential candidates a simple question: “What would you do as president to offer help and opportunity to hungry and poor people in the United States and around the world?”
National push for $15 minimum wage hits home for U.S. Senate workers
Errol Baker left his job at the Washington Hilton in 2004 after 12 years to pursue what he thought would be a better life working at the U.S. Capitol.“I thought I was going to be working in a better environment,” he said. “I’d get to meet senators and congressmen and movie stars. I was very excited.”
Syria increasingly disintegrates in crucible of war
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Syria is falling apart, as warring groups carve it into de facto fiefs, and it is increasingly hard to see how its disintegration can be reversed.
