Hanawat Tiensin
- May 20, 2020
- 3 min
Ensuring Food Security in the Era of COVID-19
Experts say the pandemic will unleash a food security crisis not seen since the Great Recession. As we learned during the 2008-09 Great...
Zoe Willingham and Silva Mathema
- May 20, 2020
- 15 min
Protecting Farmworkers from Coronavirus and Securing the Food Supply
With millions of workers staying at home to aid public health efforts to stop the spread of COVID-19, the security of America’s food...
Helena Bottemiller Evich and Liz Crampton
- May 20, 2020
- 12 min
Trump Deems Farmworkers 'Essential' But Not Safety Rules for Them. That Could Threaten the F
Millions of laborers facing coronavirus risk in fields and packinghouses lack workplace protections. The Trump administration has deemed...
Eric Westervelt, NPR.org
- May 20, 2020
- 4 min
As Food Supply Chain Breaks Down, Farm-To-Door CSAs Take Off
Images of some American farmers dumping milk, plowing under crops and tossing perishables amid sagging demand and falling prices during...
Alice Driver, Opinion cnn.com
- May 20, 2020
- 5 min
What the Arkansas Meat Plant Workers I Met Want You to Know
Many of the workers across the country are working elbow to elbow six days a week, eight hours a day. For them, social distancing in the...
Tony Romm, The Washington Post
- May 6, 2020
- 5 min
Republican-Led States Signal They Could Strip Workers’ Unemployment Benefits if They Don’t Return to
The message to workers is ‘endanger your life or starve,’ critics say (“These states are offering people the choice to endanger your life...
AFL-CIO.org
- May 6, 2020
- 4 min
Safety First: Working People's Plan for Reopening the Economy the Right Way
Every day, health care workers, transit workers, meatpacking workers, first responders, grocery workers, utility workers, letter...
Adam Blumenthal
- May 6, 2020
- 4 min
This Is How President Trump Can Quickly – and Safely – Reopen the Economy
It’s the biggest debate in America today. President Donald Trump and some Southern governors want to reopen the economy as soon as...
William Sokol, VanEck Global
- May 6, 2020
- 7 min
What Does a Green Rebound Look Like?
Policymakers Are Faced with a Once In a Lifetime Opportunity After a very strong year for global green bond issuance in 2019, another...