United States

Sugar tries to hide behind fat. Photo: ©©  Lane Vanderslice/Hunger Notes

How the sugar industry shifted the blame to fat

by Anahad O'Connor New York Times September 14, 2016

The sugar industry paid scientists in the 1960s to play down the link between sugar and heart disease and promote ...

Source: UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity
Woman shopping for vegetables. Photo: UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity

Why good nutrition is important

by Center for Science in the Public Interest September 8, 2016

Unhealthy eating and physical inactivity are leading causes of death in the U.S.  Unhealthy diet contributes to approximately 678,000 deaths each year in the U.S., due to nutrition- and obesity-related diseases, such as heart disease, cancer, and ...

The wealthy have nearly healed from recession. The poor haven’t even started.

by Jim Tankersly Washington Post August 21, 2016

The Great Recession and the subsequent recovery from it have deepened the wedge between the very wealthy and everyone else in America, plunging the poor deeper into debt and wiping out two-fifths of the wealth held by families in the heart of the mid...

Hillary Clinton in Des Moines on Wednesday. She is scheduled to speak about her economic plans on Thursday near Detroit. Credit Sam Hodgson for The New York Times
Hillary Clinton in Des Moines on August 10. Photo: Sam Hodgson/The New York Times 

The millions of Americans Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton barely mention: the poor

by Binyamin Appelbaum New York Times August 13, 2016

The United States, the wealthiest nation on Earth, also abides the deepest poverty of any developed nation, but you would not know it by listening to ...

As November approaches, courts deal a series of blows to voter ID laws

by Camila Domonoske National Public Radio August 11, 2016

All summer long, the clock has been ticking on voting rights cases.  And the past two weeks, in particular, have been eventful: Five courts in five states ruled against voter ID and proof-of-citizenship laws....

A prairie strip filled with black-eyed Susans lies next to soybeans on Smith's farm. Photo: Andrew Dickinson/The Washington Post
A prairie strip filled with black-eyed Susans lies next to soybeans on Smith’s farm.   Most farmers say the Midwestern prairie chokes crops. But, according to Iowa State University researchers, the wild thicket protects soil from erosion and serves as habitat for hundreds of species, including the threatened Monarch butterfly. Photo: ©Andrew Dickinson/The Washington Post

Iowa farmers ripped out prairie; now some hope it can save them

by Daryl Fears Washington Post August 9, 2016

There’s a wild presence in Tim Smith’s corn and soybean field that most farmers kill on sight. He stopped at the edge of a Midwestern prairie, a thicket of tall flowers and grasses more frightening to farmers than any horror movie madman lurking ...

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