Polls find that 70 percent of Americans support unions that help to raise worker wages and act as a counterweight to employers. The House approved the Faster Labor Contracts Act (FLCA) on a 230-193 ...

A 1922 compact estimated that the Colorado River would provide 17-million-acre feet of water a year and divided it equally between upstream and downstream states, but the downstream states use more.

About 40 percent were from Brazil, followed by 20 percent from South Asia and 15 percent from Portuguese-speaking African countries (PALOP). Most foreign workers were young men, and most worked in ...

Presidents AMLO and Claudia Sheinbaum said “the poor come first.” Both Morena politicians expanded cash transfers and increased the minimum wage, reducing the number of Mexicans living in poverty, but ...

Farm cash receipts were $530 billion in 2025, and production expenses were $475 billion; USDA estimated that net farm income was $155 billion and projects broader similar receipts, expenses, and ...

If the period 1850 to 1900 is used as a baseline, average global temperatures were 1.5 degrees Celsius higher by 2025. The UN Intergovernmental Panel Convention on Climate Change in December 2025 said ...

Tech firms ROI calculations sometimes make hard-to-justify assumptions about high machine reliability and rising labor costs that prove untrue. A key issue for many tech firms is to show that their ...

Beef prices are high and rising. There are fewer cattle in feedlots, so beef processors must pay higher prices to obtain them; processors say they lose money slaughtering cattle. Poultry and pork are ...

The California definition of corresponding US farm workers would be broader under AB 2646 than in H-2A regulations and include workers employed on farms without H-2A workers who do the same or ...

The H-2A and H-2B programs admit foreign guest workers to fill seasonal farm and nonfarm jobs, respectively. The H-2 program was created in 1952 by the Immigration and Nationality Act (Public Law ...

World wine production exceeds wine consumption, putting downward pressure on wine prices. Global wine production was 258 million hectoliters or 6.9 billion gallons in 2022, while global wine ...

Many small island nations offer golden passports that grant citizenship in exchange for donations or investments of $100,000 to $1 million. Many industrial countries including the US offer investors ...