United States

So, you have a minimum wage job. Now what? For many, moving beyond the first rung is the hard part.

by Lydia DePillis Washington Post January 1, 2015

Every few months, at a community center in Adams Morgan, about 100 people gather for a celebration. They hold hands in a circle, hear a blessing, and then listen as the good news pours forth....

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 Congre...

(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 th...

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 whe...

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 choice...

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