In case you didn’t know it, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is under siege by USDA, Congress, and the Trump administration. USDA reports 41.7 million people received SNAP food stamps in ...

It’s pumpkin season – from spiced lattes to Halloween decorations on the porch – and chances are it was grown in Illinois. Just over a third of all pumpkins in the United States – 485 million pounds – ...

What began in 1952 as a stopgap for seasonal labor has become a test case for U.S. immigration policy under President Trump. ...

To Mike Schultz, Kansas ranchers are stuck in velvet handcuffs. Walmart, the nation’s largest grocery retailer and private employer, recently expanded into the U.S. beef industry with its own ...

Every year, hundreds of thousands of foreign workers come to the U.S. to fill temporary agricultural labor shortages through the H-2A program — a system first introduced in 1986 to address shortages ...

This story was originally published by Grist. When Javier Zamora started his organic berry farm more than a decade ago, he was working with just an acre and a half of land in Monterey County, near ...

Volunteers Vance Edwards and Morgan Witte package corn at The Food Bank for Central and Northeast Missouri in Columbia, Mo., on Oct. 3, 2025. The food bank is a partner of Feeding America and uses ...

The federal agency that oversees disputes of workplace safety violations, including in meatpacking plants, has been without leadership for more than five months. The Occupational Safety and Health ...

Rural communities across the country are grappling with food insecurity. Schoolchildren, seniors, grocers and even farmers face a food crisis compounded by government cuts and soaring costs. These 9 ...

This story was originally published by The New Lede. A federal district court this week dismissed a lawsuit alleging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) failed to prevent the contamination ...