Spain. Spain has the EU’s most welcoming immigration policy, especially for migrants from Latin America. Over a third of the nine million migrants in Spain arrived since PM Pedro Sánchez took office ...

Market-weight cattle go to beef processors. Four firms, JBS, Cargill, Tyson Foods and National Beef, process 85 percent of US beef and most US pork and chicken. In November 2025, the Justice ...

USDA. USDA is shrinking and moving away from Washington DC. There were 110,000 USDA employees in January 2025 and less than 90,000 at the end of the year; most of those who left took buyouts.

California had $61 billion in farm sales in 2024, led by $8.6 billion worth of milk, $5.6 billion each worth of almonds and grapes, $5 billion worth of cattle and calves, $3.6 billion worth of lettuce ...

Few renters who falsify rental applications are prosecuted because many have little income and few assets, However, once in an apartment, they delay their eviction, which was easier during covid when ...

Mexico. Mexico’s minimum wage rose from 279 pesos to 315 pesos a day ($17.25) on January 1, 2026 in most of the country and from 420 to 441 pesos a day ($24.25) in border areas.

California’s minimum wage rose from $16.50 to $16.90 January 1, 2026; California is one of 19 states that raised their minimum wages in 2026. Washington has the highest state minimum wage of $17.13 an ...

Whole Foods, founded in Austin in 1980 and acquired by Amazon for $14 billion in 2017, is moving beyond selling organic produce. Whole Foods workers are now Amazon employees, and they are being urged ...

Unions represented a third of US workers in the mid-1950s, versus 10 percent today. In the 1950s, almost all union members were in the private sector; today, most are in the public sector. A third of ...

During the 1930s, some 1.3 million Americans from the Midwest and southwest migrated to California, which had a population of 5.7 million in 1930s. The arrival of Okies and Arkies set the stage for ...

The share of US workers who were union members fell to 10 percent in 2022, down from 20 percent in 1983. The wage and salary workforce rose by 50 percent between 1983 and 2022 while the number of ...

The H-2A program allows US farmers who anticipate shortages of seasonal workers to be certified by DOL to recruit and employ H-2A workers to fill seasonal jobs for up to 10 months. There is no cap on ...