It’s Official: A Former Dairy Exec Now Runs Biden’s Agriculture Department
Second time’s a charm? Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack testifies before the US House during his first stint at USDA, in 2009. AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.After a 92-7 vote in the…
The Tipped Minimum Wage Didn’t Help Restaurants and Hotels Survive the Pandemic, Says a New Report
Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.As the debate over raising the minimum wage heats up, there has been renewed attention on the subminimum wage that restaurant servers make…
Why Opening Restaurants Is Exactly What the Coronavirus Wants Us to Do
Junior’s Restaurant in New York.Mark Lennihan/AP Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This story was published originally by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in…
A Racist Policy Keeps Restaurant Workers in Poverty. Will Biden End It?
Noam Galai/Getty Images Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.For many restaurant workers, the trade off for hours of grueling work serving food and dealing with demoralizing customers, not to mention the threat of stray COVID-19 germs…
How Black Rifle Coffee Company Made Itself One of the Right’s Biggest Brands
Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.In the early moments of the insurrection on Capitol Hill, there was a way to see it as something of a joke—a serious one with important consequences, but still just a…
Three Big Questions the Senate Agriculture Committee Needs to Ask Tom Vilsack
Once and future US Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack in 2016, during his first stint on the job. Thais Llorca/EFE via ZUMA Press Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.On Feb. 2, the Senate Agriculture Committee…