Grocery stores in urban and rural areas risk closure, drops in employment and declining sales when dollar stores enter the marketplace. Rural stores are hit hardest, according to USDA researchers.
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MOOREFIELD — En una tarde lluviosa de 2020, la fábrica de pollos de Pilgrim's Pride
Thousands of immigrants have worked at Pilgrim’s Pride’s Moorefield poultry plant, the area’s largest employer. After arrival, they have a hard time finding affordable housing, paying rent and understanding complex immigration and benefits systems.
For over three decades, people have come from all over the globe to work for Pilgrim’s Pride’s Moorefield chicken factory. Inside the plant, immigrant workers shoulder a disproportionate amount of the danger.
Investigate Midwest reviewed hundreds of groundwater well records to determine how the hog industry and the state’s weak water laws are affecting water levels.
The Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge celebrates its centennial this month with dozens of events aimed at getting people out to explore its beauty and unique value. It protects more than 240,000 acres of river floodplain -- the kind that, elsewhere in the watershed, has been
While disproportionate numbers of rural residents, especially low-income and communities of color, are exposed to unhealthy greenhouse emissions, a majority of goods produced in the process are headed to cities and suburbs.
