United States

Food industry waging a bitter battle over proposal on added-sugar labels

by Evan Halper Los Angeles Times March 17, 2015

Of all the issues the Obama administration is grappling with, a modest redesign of what food labels say about sweeteners might not have seemed among the more controversial. But ever since First Lady Michelle Obama unveiled the plan last year, a lobby...

Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis

by Robert D. Putnam Washington Post March 6, 2015

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The terrible loneliness of growing up poor in Robert Putnam’s America. “Life is not something you do, it’s something you endure.”

by Emily Badger Washington Post March 6, 2015

SWARTHMORE, Pa. — Robert Putnam wants a show of hands of everyone in the room with a parent who graduated from college. In a packed Swarthmore College auditorium where the students have spilled onto the floor next to their backpacks, about 200 arms...

UN: World eating too much sugar; cut to 5-10 percent of diet

by Maria Cheng Associated Press/Myway March 4, 2015

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Mandating food insecurity: The global impacts of rising biofuel mandates and targets

by Timothy A. Wise and Emily Cole Global Development and Environmental Institute at Tufts University March 4, 2015

Expanding demand for biofuels, fed significantly by government policies mandating rising levels of consumption in transportation fuel, has been strongly implicated in food price increases and food price volatility most recently seen in 2008 and 2011-...

As Walmart gives raises, other employers may have to go above minimum wage

by Neil Irwin New York Times February 20, 2015

Walmart is the biggest private employer in America, with 1.3 million United States workers. And many of them will soon see a raise, in the latest snippet of corporate news that suggests a firmer job market is starting to enable workers to successfull...

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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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    • Facilitate communication and networking among those who are working for solutions
    • Promote individual and collective commitments to sustainable hunger solutions.