United States

The Great Society at 50

by Karen Tumulty Washington Post May 17, 2014

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The changing face of temporary employment

by Steven Greenhouse New York Times August 31, 2014

Temps aren’t just employees who sort mail and answer the boss’s phone.The work of temping has changed vastly — today 42 percent of temporary workers labor in light industry or warehouses. And there are more of them. The number of workers employed through temp agencies has climbed to a new high...

Guadalupe Salazar, a McDonald’s cashier who says her paychecks were missing overtime wages. Photo: Peter DaSilva/New York Times

More workers are claiming ‘wage theft’

by Steven Greenhouse New York Times August 31, 2014

MIRA LOMA, Calif. — Week after week, Guadalupe Rangel worked seven days straight, sometimes 11 hours a day, unloading dining room sets, trampolines, television stands and other imports from Asia that would soon be shipped to Walmart stores....

Jobless contend with weight gain as they search for work

by Michael S Rosenwald Washington Post May 11, 2014

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What your 1st-grade life says about the rest of it

by Emily Badger Washington Post August 30, 2014

Dante Washington is employed, has a degree and his own home in Baltimore. He defied the statistics of a 25-year-long research project that was turned into a book "The Long Shadow" which centers on children growing up in poverty -stricken areas of Baltimore. BALTIMORE — In the beginning, when they ...

The GMO fight ripples down the food chain: Facing consumer pressure, more companies are jettisoning GMOs from their foods

by Annie Gasparro Wall Street Journal August 8, 2014

Two years ago, Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc. initiated a plan to eliminate genetically modified ingredients from its ice cream, an effort to address a nascent consumer backlash and to fulfill its own environmental goals....

Living on the streets of Oakland. The Great Recession may be over, but every night people are sleeping on benches or in makeshift shelters. Here are a...

by David Bacon East Bay Express August 6, 2014

After I went out with Vinny Pannizzo, I began to see things differently. Now, when I drive through downtown Oakland late at night and I see someone sitting in a bus shelter, I wonder if she'll be sleeping there. On park benches and in doorways, I'll look for men and women curled up in sleeping bags,...

Climate change study finds US is already widely affected

by Justin Gillis New York Times May 6, 2014

The effects of human-induced climate change are being felt in every corner of the United States, scientists reported Tuesday, with water growing scarcer in dry regions, torrential rains increasing in wet regions, heat waves becoming more common and more severe, wildfires growing worse, and forests d...

On the upper West Side of New York City, a house divided by income

by New York Times July 25, 2014

Even as so many crises roiled the world recently, the news that a development on the Upper West Side of Manhattan would proceed with a brand of distasteful social engineering still managed to command international attention. The building, in what is known as Riverside South, a stretch of land reachi...

Don’t think Obama has reduced inequality? These numbers prove that he has

by Zachary A. Goldfarb Washington Post July 23, 2014

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  • For the past 50 years, since its founding in 1976, the mission of World Hunger Education Service is to undertake programs, including Hunger Notes, that
    • Educate the general public and target groups about the extent and causes of hunger and malnutrition in the United States and the world
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