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A provision in the federal spending bill prohibits lowering salt limits for school lunches. Photo: Nabil K. Mark/Centre Daily Times, via Associated Press

2015: The year Republicans strike back at Obama food policies

by Jenny Hopkinson, Helena Bottemiller Evich, Bill Tomson and Chase Purdy Politico January 1, 2015

The Obama administration is becoming increasingly involved in what Americans put on their dinner plates and in their cereal bowls, from requiring school children to be served fruit to eliminating trans fats in doughnuts. But the new Republican Congress is already laying the groundwork to push back i...

(MERCED, CA) Vidal Cota is an immigrant farm worker from Los Mochis, Sinaloa. He cleans the plastic tubes used for drip irrigation from a watermelon field, after the melons have been harvested. Photo: David Bacon

Hard winter for California farm workers

by David Bacon New American Media December 22, 2014

In October in California's farmworker towns, unemployment rates begin to rise when the harvests end. In Coachella, not far from the wealth of Palm Springs, one of every eight workers has no job. In Delano, where the United Farm Workers was born in the grape strike 50 years ago, it's one of every fou...

The college trap that keeps people poor (Series)

by Jim Tankersley Washington Post December 16, 2014

FORT WORTH — Chelsey Stone had already escaped so many of the traps that keep poor children in poverty for life. She recalls begging neighbors for dinner when her mother sold their food stamps for drug money. She slept on the trampoline outside when the heroin showed up and her mom locked the door...

Ed Green clears a foggy windshield at the beginning of his shift with the North Carolina Department of Transportation in Winston-Salem. Green works several jobs but still doesn’t earn as much as he used to as a bus driver in New York. Photo: Bonnie Jo Mount/Washington Post

The devalued American worker

by Jim Tankersley Washington Post December 15, 2014

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Midway through the last game of the 2013 Carolina League season, after he’d swept peanut shells and mopped soda off the concourse, Ed Green lumbered upstairs to the box seats to dump the garbage. ...

Congress to nutritionists: Don’t talk about the environment

by Dan Charles National Public Radio December 15, 2014

A government-appointed group of top nutrition experts, assigned to lay the scientific groundwork for a new version of the nation's dietary guidelines, decided earlier this year to collect data on the environmental implication of different food choices....

Why America’s middle class is lost

by Jim Tankersley Washington Post December 14, 2014

DOWNEY, CALIF. — One day in 1967, Bob Thompson sprayed foam on a hunk of metal in a cavernous factory south of Los Angeles. And then another day, not too long after, he sat at a long wood bar with a black-and-white television hanging over it, and he watched that hunk of metal land a man on the moo...

In final spending bill, salty food and belching cows are the winners

by Robert Pear New York Times December 14, 2014

WASHINGTON — Health insurance companies preserved their tax breaks. Farmers and ranchers were spared having to report on pollution from manure. Tourist destinations like Las Vegas benefited from a travel promotion program....

House oks Feed the Future authority

by Philip Brasher Agri-Pulse December 10, 2014

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 - The House has approved a bill that would provide the first congressional authorization for the Obama administration's $1-billion-a-year Feed the Future initiative....

How the Midwest food and agriculture sector relies on immigrant labor

by Stephanie Mercier Chicago Council on Global Affairs December 9, 2014

Agriculture is an important part of the Midwestern economy, providing billions of dollars in business revenues and supplying thousands of jobs to the 12-state region. The success of the agriculture sector—including dairy farmers in Wisconsin, seed corn producers in Iowa, food processors in Minneso...

At Campo Sacramento in Guasave, Sinaloa, barbed wire runs along the perimeter, and arrivals and departures are controlled around the clock. Photo: Don Bartletti

Hardship on Mexico’s farms, a bounty for US tables

by Richard Marosi Photography & video by Don Bartletti Los Angeles December 8, 2014

The tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers arrive year-round by the ton, with peel-off stickers proclaiming "Product of Mexico." Farm exports to the U.S. from Mexico have tripled to $7.6 billion in the last decade, enriching agribusinesses, distributors and retailers....

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