Also, big banks can’t administer their core function. This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for April 30, 2020.
agriculture
Posted inCoronavirus
Coronavirus Has Broken America’s Food Supply
Because commercial and consumer supply chains are different and cannot easily be transferred, enormous amounts of food are going to waste—and it could get worse.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Deeper Source of Grocery Panic
How COVID-19 exposes the flaws in industrial agriculture—and invites reforms
Posted inCoronavirus
America’s Farmworkers—Now ‘Essential,’ but Denied the Just-Enacted Benefits
The undocumented workers who pick the nation’s food are excluded from the CARES Act.
Posted inWorking in America
‘Close to Slavery’ or Legalization? The Farmworkers’ Hard Choice
A bipartisan bill now in Congress would legalize undocumented agricultural workers—but also bring in wage-depressing foreign contract workers with no rights.
Posted inWorking in America
A Fair Labor Market for Food-Chain Workers
Agricultural interests exploit a vulnerable and often undocumented workforce, and collude to tamp down wages. Reforming these labor markets is essential.
Posted inWorking in America
Since Washington, D.C., Won’t Oversee Its Guest Worker Programs, Washington State Will
Farmworkers also recently won bargaining rights in New York. But California—once the epicenter of farmworker rights—is falling behind.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Stripping the Value from Food Labels
New regulations allow the food industry to hide important information from consumers, and it could get worse.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
In Rural America, Farmers Reap What the President Sows
Trump’s proposed USDA budget cuts send the wrong message to America’s struggling small farms.