…Free Trade Agreement (FTA) by trade flows. The agreement would eventually eliminate all tariffs on manufactured products and most agricultural goods. The opening of agricultural and food markets, especially in…
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…These policy debates are seldom simple to resolve and involve complex tradeoffs: Traditional fishing rights versus government regulation; short-term profits versus longer-term sustainable growth; local population food needs versus larger…
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…keep food on the table and pay the mortgage.” But in general, “access to payday credit reduces well-being” by encouraging borrowers to over-consume and spend less on such vitals as…
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…to food and exercise. The American Academy of Pediatrics stresses that healthy habits developed in childhood can last for many decades. But the transition from high school to college can prompt…
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…performance. Although such products often are promoted as “herbal” or “natural,” they can contain synthetic ingredients and toxic chemicals not listed on their labels. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration…
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…the price of food, since ethanol is largely made from corn, which we, and the animals we eat, consume. A 2015 meta-analysis in Food Policy found that an additional billion…
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…violence. The authors focus specifically on how food and housing insecurity relate to intimate partner and sexual violence rates. Controlling for age, family income, race and ethnicity, education and marital…
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…GDP numbers for 2020 are released later this month, chiefly because people are spending far less than they were a few weeks ago. Retail and food sales in the U.S….
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…and processes in the U.S.: 1) How will the U.S. Food and Drug Administration decide COVID-19 vaccines are safe for distribution in this country? 2) What can state and federal…
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…tracks: food, energy, certain services, and commodities like clothing and cars. Excluding food and energy, which tend to have larger price swings than other product categories, inflation stood at 5.5%….
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