Showing posts with label food prices. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food prices. Show all posts
Sunday, September 6, 2026
How Talarico is countering Trump's midterms convention - Live Updates - POLITICO
The Texas Democratic Senate candidate is hosting a statewide food drive to highlight the high cost of groceries, according to plans shared first with POLITICO...
Deadly escalation in Black Sea attacks prompts fears of even higher food prices
Russian and Ukrainian strikes in July killed more crew than in whole war to that month, preventing grain exports…
Thursday, August 27, 2026
Tuesday, August 25, 2026
High food costs exacerbating hunger for elderly Americans
Inflation in food prices can hit even harder for people in their 60s and older as they also juggle fixed incomes, health problems and changes in federal law. Experts say the age group is a “forgotten population” when it comes to food insecurity…
https://www.kcur.org/environment-agriculture/2026-08-24/older-americans-high-food-prices
Monday, July 13, 2026
‘Super’ El Niño could cause global food price shock lasting into 2028, analysts say
Weather cycle threatens harvests worldwide, adding to inflation already fuelled by the Iran war…
Saturday, May 30, 2026
Why the U.S. cattle herd is at a 75-year low — and what it means for beef prices : NPR
A number of factors have been pushing livestock numbers down, including rising costs, drought, international competition and increased consolidation in the cattle industry. Now, there are fewer American farmers and ranchers than there were even a few years ago, according to Bill Bullard, CEO of the cattle and sheep producers group R-CALF USA. "We have likewise lost the cows that they once maintained," he said. "So we have seen our herd shrink at an alarming rate for the past several decades."…
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/29/nx-s1-5719511/beef-cattle-herd-food-prices
Monday, May 25, 2026
Saturday, December 27, 2025
US voters linking climate crisis to rising bills despite Trump’s ‘green scam’ claims
New polling shows 65% of registered US voters believe global heating is affecting cost of living…
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
Trump’s deportation plan would hurt families and economy, Senate hears | US immigration | The Guardian
Instead of mass deportations, [let's have] mass accountability," said the senator Dick Durbin, the committee's Democratic chair. "Let's fix our broken immigration system in a way that protects our country and honors our heritage as a nation of immigrants."
Democrats turned to their witnesses – an immigration expert, a retired army major general and an undocumented prosecutor – to make the case that mass deportations would do far more harm than good.
"The president-elect's mass deportation plans would crash the American economy, break up families and take a hammer to the foundations of our society by deporting nearly 4% of the entire US population," Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow at the nonpartisan American Immigration Council, testified to the committee.
An analysis by his group estimates that it would cost nearly $1tn to carry out Trump's mass deportation plan and slash the annual GDP by between 4.2% and 6.8% – a level on par with the recession of 2008. Asked how Trump's plans could impact Americans financially, Reichlin-Melnick said it would exacerbate inflation and cause food prices to rise…
Friday, January 12, 2024
Drought Touches a Quarter of Humanity, U.N. Says, Disrupting Lives Globally - The New York Times
The crisis, worsened partly by climate change, has been accompanied by soaring food prices and could have consequences for hunger, elections and migration worldwide...
Tuesday, April 4, 2023
'Break Up Big Ag,' Says Sanders After Egg Giant Posts 718% Profit Increase
"While working families paid record prices for eggs, Cal-Maine raked over 700% more in profits—without reporting a single case of avian flu," Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) tweeted on Thursday.
"We need to crack down on corporate price gouging to provide Americans with relief at the grocery store."
Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.), who is running for U.S. Senate, wrote on Twitter last week that "corporate greed is driving inflation."
"We need more competition to drive down prices," she added. "In the meantime, I'm demanding answers from Cal-Maine directly."…
Monday, March 13, 2023
‘Global greedflation’: big firms ‘driving shopping bills to record highs’ | Inflation | The Guardian
"Our research exposes where and how the economy is being rigged against workers – from supermarkets to energy bills, oil refineries to transport, we're all paying the price," she said…
Graham said: "The profiteering crisis isn't just a few bad apples – it's systemic across our broken economy. Entire industries are choosing to take advantage of a crisis, resulting in the spiralling prices of goods we all need."…
Tuesday, August 30, 2022
Extreme China heatwave could lead to global chaos and food shortages - NZ Herald
Cars. Batteries. Solar panels. Food. Global shortages and soaring prices are almost certain as China's seemingly never-ending heatwave sears on...
...Now China is facing severe shortfalls in the autumn harvest of rice and wheat in the Yangtze basin. And analysts say that's likely to be yet another stressor on global food prices...
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