New York’s Fast-Food Workers to Be Paid $15 Minimum Wage by 2021

Roisin Davis / Truthdig Jul 23, 2015 Fast-food workers throughout the state won a hard-fought and important victory Wednesday: a $15 minimum wage. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Jon Stewart Goes After Fox News for Attacking the Poor and Food Stamps

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Climate Change to Cut Global Food Production, Increase Water Demand

BLANK Nov 3, 2013 Scientists and other experts are now taking an even dimmer view of the effects of global warming, and believe it will decrease worldwide food production even as demand from an expanding population increases. At the same time, climate change will increase the competition for potable water. And some changes are already occurring. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Targeting Obesity

Angel Boligan, Cagle Cartoons, El Universal, Mexico City Apr 12, 2013 Dig deeper

Excess

Monte Wolverton, Cagle Cartoons Apr 8, 2013 Dig deeper

Bread and the ‘Tropic of Chaos’

Staff / Truthdig Jul 21, 2011 Christian Parenti, who writes regularly for The Nation magazine, has published a book detailing some of the present and future social impacts of climate change. In an essay on Tom Dispatch.com, he connects the rising cost of bread to the revolutionary uprisings in the Middle East and Northern Africa. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Global Food Scheme Starves Guatemalan Poor

Staff / Truthdig Jun 2, 2011 Due to predatory trade policies endorsed by the IMF and the Guatemalan government, tax-evading transnational corporations partnered with local elites make a killing off the country's agricultural exports while more than half of its 14 million people suffer extreme poverty and threats of violence. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Soaring Food Prices Threaten Asia’s Poor

Staff / Truthdig Apr 27, 2011 Due to rising food prices, the Asian Development Bank is forecasting a surge in the number of people counted within the region's severely impoverished class. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

World Bank President Sounds a Warning

Staff / Truthdig Apr 18, 2011 With rising food prices and soaring unemployment wreaking havoc across the developing world, World Bank President Robert Zoellick has some dreary news, declaring that the world is "one shock away from a full-blown crisis." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Behold the Food of the Future

Staff / Truthdig Nov 19, 2009 Want some Frankenfood with your superfood? How about those functional foods? As you might imagine, a preview of what we may be eating -- or at least what we may be told is good for us -- in the future is best taken with a grain of salt. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Bloodless Coup Leaders Arrest Mauritania’s President

Staff / Truthdig Aug 6, 2008 The government of President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdellah came to an end Wednesday in the West African state of Mauritania, as military officers arrested both Abdellah and the prime minister in a coup against a government denounced for its "corruption and ineptitude in handling rising food prices and oil revenues." Sound familiar at all? Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

World Bank: Biofuel Boom Spiking Food Prices

Staff / Truthdig Aug 1, 2008 A World Bank report, held from public view for several months, finds strong evidence that increased production of biofuels such as ethanol has caused a sharp climb in the price of foodstuffs worldwide. "The report stands as a blistering rebuke to the Bush's administration's unchecked biofuel boosterism," argues environmental writer Tom Philpott. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )