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  • Democracy & Government
    How Decades of Corporate-Friendly Farm Policies Wrecked Rural America
    November 9, 2020
    | Jim Goodman
    And Paved the Way for Trump
  • Inequality
    Why Does Essential Work Pay So Little and Cost So Much?
    July 24, 2020
    | Rebecca Gordon

    The pandemic has exposed certain deep and unexamined assumptions about the nature and value of work in the United States.

  • Health & Science
    Americans Embrace Pioneer Roots as Food Supply Falters
    June 18, 2020
    | Monica Romano
    As the COVID-19 pandemic exposes another area of vulnerability — the U.S. food supply, Americans find innovative ways to keep themselves and their communities fed.
  • Health & Science
    Food Industry has Trump's Administration Where It Wants It
    November 17, 2017
    | Alana Toulin
    Big business has appropriated cultural discussions surrounding food in the US in a way that boosted profits rather than protecting consumers. And the Trump administration looks like it's ready to go along.
  • Environment
    Imperial Valley Doesn't Wait for Feds to Track Pollution
    February 16, 2017
    | Paulina Phelps
    For marginalized communities along the California-Mexico border, projects to gather and share scientific reports are crucial to holding agencies accountable.
  • CIW: Support Human Rights for Food Supply Chain Workers
    January 25, 2015
    | Coalition of Immokalee Workers
    CIW's Fair Food Program has transformed Florida’s $650 million tomato industry. Now in its fourth season, it is poised to expand to new crops and new states.
  • Michael Pollan: "Our Food Is Dishonestly Priced"
    February 3, 2014
    | Amy B. Dean
    Industry plays up the image of the food snob to keep us divided, but the stereotype hides a much more diverse and savvy movement, says best-selling author and food activist Michael Pollan.
  • My Hope is to Bring All Farmworkers to the Table
    January 5, 2014
    | Lucas Benitez
    We asked some of the people trying to change the world for the better to tell us what made them proud in 2013, and what their hopes and dreams are for 2014.
  • Students Mobilize Against Wendy’s For Farmworker’s Rights
    November 25, 2013
    | Aaron Cantú
    Every fast food corporation that sources its tomatoes from Florida has signed onto the Fair Food Program except for Wendy's. Protesters hope to change that.
  • Will the Immigration Bill Help Migrant Farmworkers?
    July 19, 2013
    | Lauren Feeney
    Labor specialist Robert Willis talks about cures and compromises on migrant worker issues in the Senate’s new bill.


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