Economic Justice

How Development Banks Underwrote Fast Food’s Global Takeover

Alex Park / DeSmog Apr 24, 2024 From South Africa to Ukraine, five industrial chicken companies that supply KFC have benefited from financing from the World Bank Group and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

Poverty Wages

Clay Bennett / Truthdig Sep 6, 2014 Dig deeper

McDonald’s Advises Workers How Much to Tip Their Pool Boys and Au Pairs

BLANK Dec 6, 2013 McDonald's once again displayed its utter ignorance of the lives of its low-wage workers in an online advice column recommending seasonal tipping rates for luxury services And on the same day those workers joined a nationwide walkout protesting poverty wages Yes, Ronald McDonald is a clown, but still . Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Fast Food Workers Super Size Their Walkout

BLANK Aug 20, 2013 Fast food workers demanding a livable wage of $15 an hour are pushing for a nationwide walkout Aug. 29, leading, fittingly enough, into Labor Day weekend. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Military Secrets

Nate Beeler, Cagle Cartoons, The Columbus Dispatch Jun 3, 2013 Dig deeper

The Revolutionaries Feeding the Obesity Crisis

David Sirota / Truthdig Jun 18, 2012 With the three meals hitting their caloric max-out point, Yum! Brands has been leading the effort to add a whole new gorging session to America's daily schedule. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Military Spread Thin

Bill Schorr, Cagle Cartoons Feb 28, 2011 Dig deeper

Clear and Pheasant Danger

Mike Luckovich / Truthdig Apr 14, 2010 Dig deeper

School Lunches Are Making America’s Kids Bigger, Hungrier

Staff / Truthdig Jan 8, 2010 American school officials' attitudes about the relationship between kids and their school lunches have swung from shades of strict social Darwinism to reflections of the free-market mentality over the last century, as Michael O'Donnell explains in his Washington Monthly book review. Thus, the ideal of character-building deprivation gave way to the age of the tater tot. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )