The Food Chain Workers Alliance releases a new report, The Hands That Feed Us: Challenges and Opportunities for Workers Along the Food Chain, the first of its kind that looks at wages and working conditions of workers across the entire food chain – a sector that employs 20 million people in the U.S., comprising one-sixth of the nation’s workforce. more
Bill de Blasio has put out a helpful infographic to help understand just how many people are being stopped by police in New York City, and where they were stopped, and what ethnicity they just so happened to be when they were stopped. more
McDonald’s shareholders recently voted down a proposal by Corporate Accountability International that would have required the company to evaluate its impact on public health, particularly childhood obesity. In rebuffing the proposal, McDonald’s CEO Jim Skinner argued that the company markets responsibly to children. more
Statement on The USDA Nutrition Guidelines for School Snacks