United States

America’s growing food inequality problem

by Roberto Ferdman Washington Post September 2, 2014

Part of that divide is likely price-driven. Health foods, while growing in popularity (and fast), can be expensive, and, in turn, inaccessible to poorer people not just in America, but anywhere. "Price is a major determinant of food choice, and healt...

Great Society at 50: LBJ’s Job Corps will cost taxpayers $1.7 billion this year. Does it work?

by David A Fahrenthold Washington Post May 19, 2014

INDIAHOMA, Okla. — In the middle of an Oklahoma wildlife refuge — at a campus so remote that buffalo wander in — about 100 young people are taking classes in the hope that the U.S. government can turn their lives around....

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 employ...

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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  • 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
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    • Promote individual and collective commitments to sustainable hunger solutions.