On January 12, the U.S. Department of Agriculture decided the country needed clarity on a pressing national issue. No, it’s not food insecurity, farm consolidation, or inflation. It’s…
Read more ‘What the F—k Is Going On’: The USDA Just Posted Trump with a Milk Mustache and Everyone Wishes They’d Never Seen ItLet’s set aside the controversy over what Walmart’s shrinkflation of its annual Thanksgiving feast bundle might suggest for the recent trajectory of grocery prices. The good news for…
Read more Thankfully, we don’t have to spend as much of our incomes on food as our ancestors didThe Trump administration has released all withheld funds for November SNAP benefits to states for distribution, while new work requirements are set to change the program for many…
Read more Trump administration releases SNAP benefits amid new work requirementsThe U.S. Department of Agriculture has posted a notice on its website saying federal food aid will not go out on November 1, raising the stakes for families…
Read more Trump administration posts notice that no federal food aid will go out Nov. 1This article is part of HuffPost’s biweekly politics newsletter. Click here to subscribe. As the government shutdown continues, government agencies like the Social Security Administration and programs like…
Read more There’s About To Be An Awful New Consequence Of The ShutdownFew things are more difficult to eradicate in our system of modern governance than a government-sanctioned monopoly or oligopoly. A recently passed bill in Tennessee, which will allow…
Read more Tennessee alcohol wholesalers are grabbing control of the state’s hemp marketThanksgiving week is a time to be grateful for the nutritional abundance you enjoy, and for many an appropriate time to think about how to help those who…
Read more Giving away food from government to government isn’t the best way to solve world hunger
