Food + Politics
Biden’s American Families Plan would fix SNAP eligibility for formerly incarcerated people banned from benefits

04.30.2021
by Simran Sethi
Economic Research Service logo in front of hands pulling weed from soil. April 2021
Vilsack confirms that USDA research arms will not return to Washington, D.C.
Economic Research Service logo in front of hands pulling weed from soil. April 2021
04.29.2021
by Jessica Fu
Schirmer Farms (Batesville) Operations Manager Brandon Schirmer leaves the harvester parked and ready to start the first sesame harvest of thiw 270-acre circular pivot irrigated sesame field at his mother and father's 1,014-acre multi-crop farm in Batesville, TX, on October 29, 2020.
The Senate appears poised to pass a bipartisan bill to help farmers sell carbon credits. Not everyone is happy.
Schirmer Farms (Batesville) Operations Manager Brandon Schirmer leaves the harvester parked and ready to start the first sesame harvest of thiw 270-acre circular pivot irrigated sesame field at his mother and father's 1,014-acre multi-crop farm in Batesville, TX, on October 29, 2020.
04.27.2021
by H. Claire Brown
Chris Hollis is among the truck drivers involved in organizing a union at Valley Proteins' animal waste rendering operations in North Carolina. April 2021
Workers face off against rendering company in rural North Carolina
Chris Hollis is among the truck drivers involved in organizing a union at Valley Proteins' animal waste rendering operations in North Carolina. April 2021
04.23.2021
by Lewis Kendall
Contents of a USDA Farmers to Families food box includes apples meatballs, hotdogs, milk and other fresh items that need to be consumed in a timely manner in Athens, Ohio on December 19, 2020. - Thousands of food boxes were distributed to families from all over rural Appalachia who were able to drive to the fairgrounds, but most only were able to leave with one box of food for the week of Christmas. April 2021
Biden administration to end USDA food box program
Contents of a USDA Farmers to Families food box includes apples meatballs, hotdogs, milk and other fresh items that need to be consumed in a timely manner in Athens, Ohio on December 19, 2020. - Thousands of food boxes were distributed to families from all over rural Appalachia who were able to drive to the fairgrounds, but most only were able to leave with one box of food for the week of Christmas. April 2021
04.14.2021
by H. Claire Brown
A worker removes unusable Russet Burbank potatoes as they are transferred into a storage facility operated by local grower Frank Martinez of Saddle View Farms on May 1, 2020 in Warden, Washington.
Washington state is likely to pass one of the nation’s strongest farmworker overtime laws
A worker removes unusable Russet Burbank potatoes as they are transferred into a storage facility operated by local grower Frank Martinez of Saddle View Farms on May 1, 2020 in Warden, Washington.
04.14.2021
by Jessica Fu
From left: Veronica Leal, Maria Isabel Sierra Mosso and Santa Arias pose in front of a sign on Thompson Street in Manhattan during a hunger strike for excluded workers. March 2021
Meet the immigrant women on hunger strike for pandemic relief
From left: Veronica Leal, Maria Isabel Sierra Mosso and Santa Arias pose in front of a sign on Thompson Street in Manhattan during a hunger strike for excluded workers. March 2021
04.06.2021
by Paul Frangipane
2021/02/20: Participants seen holding signs and marching on a picket line at the protest. Members of the Workers Assembly Against Racism gathered across from Jeff Bezos-owned Whole Foods Market in Union Square South for a nation-wide solidarity event with the unionizing Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama. March 2021
How will next week’s hotly contested Amazon union vote in Alabama actually work?
2021/02/20: Participants seen holding signs and marching on a picket line at the protest. Members of the Workers Assembly Against Racism gathered across from Jeff Bezos-owned Whole Foods Market in Union Square South for a nation-wide solidarity event with the unionizing Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama. March 2021
03.23.2021
by H. Claire Brown
Migrant workers, delicately lift large sweet potatoes as they pick and sort according to size, at Kirby Farms in Mechanicsville, VA on Sep. 20, 2013.
The House approved a pathway to citizenship for farm workers. Why do some farm workers oppose it?
Migrant workers, delicately lift large sweet potatoes as they pick and sort according to size, at Kirby Farms in Mechanicsville, VA on Sep. 20, 2013.
03.23.2021
by Jessica Fu