Fast-food employees are struggling to afford necessities and a recent report shows they must work more than twice as many hours as the average worker just to afford the meals they serve. It ...

The items are seldom a healthy salad or include a side of veggies. Donuts, cookies, pastries, the candy dish, the vending machine and more -- are office foods making people fat? Perhaps. The first ...

The food-stamp program already has work requirements for people the U.S. government defines as "able-bodied adults without dependents" — in other words, younger workers who aren't disabled and who don ...

Research by tech-centric corporate catering outfit EzCater, which connects companies of every size, including huge corporations like FedEx, with about 100,000 restaurants nationwide, shows that 88 ...

There are so many rituals, practices, and beliefs that are petering out in our post-pandemic working lives. The handshake. The necktie. The notion that workers can’t be trusted to be productive when ...

SNAP food benefits are flowing again after a pause during the federal government shutdown. But the clock is about to start on a policy that imposes work requirements. File: SNAP EBT information sign ...

It is no mystery that there is a cloud of negativity that hangs over the fast-food industry. Growing up in the United States, kids are told that working for a fast-food company is beneath them, that ...

A bodega displays a sign that says it accepts EBT, Electronic Benefit Transfer, in Queens, New York. EBT is an electronic system that allows a Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) ...

On Oct. 20, Republican candidate and former President Donald Trump staged a photo op at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania– a key battleground state where both he and his opponent, Vice President Kamala ...

A report found that 1 in 17 homeless people in California work in fast food. Others working in fast food struggling with rent. A report this week released by the Economic Roundtable examined the ...

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