EU Parliament elections in June 2024 were marked by the rising strength of rightist anti-migrant parties, and national elections in France and the UK in July 2024 showed that voters want to punish ...

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris in August 2024 blamed “corporate price gouging” by meatpackers and food manufacturers for high grocery prices. Most economists disagreed, pointing to ...

Florida’s SB 1718 in 2023 imposed state sanctions on employers who hire unauthorized workers. In April 2024, Florida enacted HB 433 to block local governments such as Miami-Dade from requiring ...

There have been many efforts to uncover the secrets to rapid economic growth. Most explanations for persisting poverty center on three factors: Geography stresses that most poor countries are in the ...

USDA reported that farmers spent $48 billion on labor in 2023, making hired labor 10 percent of total farm production expenses. Crop farms accounted for three-quarters of the labor expenses. The ...

There were three major farm labor issues in California and the US in summer 2024: H-2As, FLCs, and the unintended effects of new laws and regulations. The H-2A program quadrupled in size over the past ...

UN leaders met in New York City to discuss global issues amidst record temperatures and wars in the Middle East and Ukraine. Since the Paris agreement of 2015 to restrict carbon emissions, China has ...

The Census of Agriculture reported that 437,000 US farms had $42 billion in expenses for hired farm labor in 2022, and 195,000 farms had $10 billion in expenses for contract labor, for a total of $52 ...

The UN in July 2024 projected that the world’s population of 8.2 billion would peak at 10.3 billion in 2084 and decline to 10.2 billion by 2100. When the world’s population peaks in 60 years, the UN ...

The H-2A program allows US farm employers who anticipate shortages of seasonal workers to be certified by DOL to recruit and employ H-2A workers to fill seasonal farm jobs for up to 10 months.

The UK’s Migration Advisory Committee released a report in July 2024 that reviewed the Seasonal Worker Scheme and urged the British government to plan for a long-term farm guest worker program and ...

The Agricultural Labor Relations Board certified the UFW as the bargaining representative of employees at Wonderful’s Wasco nursery, the largest US largest grapevine nursery, after the UFW submitted ...