Instacart Is Losing Its Argument That Contractors Aren’t Employees
Levine Roberts/ZUMA Last year, San Diego City Attorney Mara Elliott sued Instacart—the nearly $8 billion dollar grocery delivery service for misclassifying employees as independent contractors. Late Monday, a state judge agreed, ruling that shoppers in San Diego should likely be considered full-time employees. This landmark ruling makes clear that Instacart employees have been misclassified as…
Trump Rescued a Nasty Pesticide from an EPA Ban. Now Corteva Will Stop Making It.
Pgiam/Getty Images Back in 2017, in the early days of the Trump administration, the Environmental Protection Agency rejected a proposal by its own scientists to ban chlorpyrifos, a neurotoxic pesticide suspected of causing to lower birth weights, lower IQs, attention deficit disorder and other developmental issues in children. The decision generated outrage and inspired several…
Clinton Gave Up On Rural America. Are the Democrats About To Do It Again?
Donald Trump on the campaign trail, 2016.Andrew Harnik/AP Photo President Donald Trump, speaking in Iowa last week, made a bold prediction about his prospects in the Hawkeye State this coming November: “We’re going to win the great state of Iowa, and it’s going to be a historic landslide,” he thundered. Trump may actually turn out…
Trump Just Claimed He’s Weaning People Off Food Stamps. In Truth He’s Kicking Them Off.
cqpho/Associated Press At the State of the Union speech on Tuesday night, Donald Trump credited his administration for helping lift people out of poverty and off dependence on food stamps, saying that since he became president, 7 million people have stopped using food stamps. But that’s not showing a complete picture. While Trump brags on national…
Are Democrats Finally About to Harvest the Iowa Farm Vote?
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., stumps at the Iowa State Fair in August 2019. John Locher/AP Photo In 2019, Iowa farmers endured catastrophic storms and their seventh straight year of low crop prices, a situation made worse by President Donald Trump’s export-killing trade wars. Will farm policy play a major role in the…
Climate Change Is Making It Much Harder to Be a Young Farmer
A young woman picks fruit.Dmitry Feoktistov/Zuma This story was originally published by the Food and Environment Reporting Network. With this season’s severe flooding, raging wildfires, and delayed planting, many of the country’s farmers are struggling to adjust as climate change sets in. Yet young and beginning farmers face unique challenges, farmers and advocates say, with…