Food Stamps Set Another Record High
About 15% of the U.S. population received food stamps in May, according to the Department of Agriculture. A total of 45.8 million people — a record high — used the government’s Supplemental Nutrition...
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U.S. food regulators have scaled back proposed guidelines that would limit advertising to children for foods with added sugars, salt, and saturated fat, bowing to pressure from companies like Nestle...
View ArticleUSDA: Local Foods Are Multi-Billion Dollar Business
Locally grown foods have become a multi-billion dollar business, according to a new U.S. Department of Agriculture report. Whether sold directly to consumers at farmers markets or through...
View ArticleOrganic Farming: The New Frontier
The organic foods business is worth over $50 billion globally, and with a new trade agreement between the United States and the European Union opening up new markets, that number could double within...
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5 Big Casualties of the Federal Sequester
The fight to balance the budget was always bound to have some casualties. Toward the end of 2012, as it became increasingly clear that sequestration would become reality, Senator Barbara Mikulski...
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5 Government Agencies Hit Hard by the Sequester
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/76657755@N04/ The government reaching, breaching, and re-establishing its own spending limit is hardly a new phenomenon. We did it in 2010 with a total debt burden...
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Amazon to IBM: No CIA Contract for You!
Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) and IBM (NYSE:IBM) have been swatting at each other over a $600 million contract, according to ZDNet. The contract in question is over the powering of the CIA’s secret cloud...
View ArticleFood Stamps Set Another Record High
About 15% of the U.S. population received food stamps in May, according to the Department of Agriculture. A total of 45.8 million people — a record high — used the government’s Supplemental Nutrition...
View ArticleFood Regulators Scale Back Guidelines for Ads Targeting Children
U.S. food regulators have scaled back proposed guidelines that would limit advertising to children for foods with added sugars, salt, and saturated fat, bowing to pressure from companies like Nestle...
View ArticleUSDA: Local Foods Are Multi-Billion Dollar Business
Locally grown foods have become a multi-billion dollar business, according to a new U.S. Department of Agriculture report. Whether sold directly to consumers at farmers markets or through...
View ArticleOrganic Farming: The New Frontier
The organic foods business is worth over $50 billion globally, and with a new trade agreement between the United States and the European Union opening up new markets, that number could double within...
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5 Big Casualties of the Federal Sequester
The fight to balance the budget was always bound to have some casualties. Toward the end of 2012, as it became increasingly clear that sequestration would become reality, Senator Barbara Mikulski...
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5 Government Agencies Hit Hard by the Sequester
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/76657755@N04/ The government reaching, breaching, and re-establishing its own spending limit is hardly a new phenomenon. We did it in 2010 with a total debt burden...
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3 States Where More Than 1 in 5 People Receive Food Stamps
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/proimos/ Earlier in September, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to advance a measure that would cut $4 billion, or 5 percent, from the food stamps programs...
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