Jan 11 Health The Vexing Vape: Officials Say Small Vaping Device Juul A Major Health Risk To Youth A slender, black, rectangle, the Juul fits easily in the palm of your hand. You don’t light it, you trigger it with a click of a finger. The mist that is exhaled is so fine it’s hard to see. The nicotine is delivered via a pod the size of a AAA battery, with each pod […] By Mary Meehan Jan 11 Health The Vexing Vape: Officials Say Small Vaping Device Juul A Major Health Risk To Youth Mary Meehan
Nov 17 Agriculture Gutting Guest Worker Rights: Migrant Labor Bill Cuts Protections Roberto Gonzales and six other workers came from Nayarit, Mexico, to work on a Garrard County, Kentucky, tobacco farm using a guest worker program called the H-2A visa. The Department of Labor program guarantees a wage in Kentucky of $10.92 an hour. But Gonzales said the workers were only getting between $3 and $8 per […] By Nicole Erwin Nov 17 Agriculture Gutting Guest Worker Rights: Migrant Labor Bill Cuts Protections Nicole Erwin
Oct 18 Agriculture On Strike: Migrant Workers On Visa Program Claim Unfair Pay Workers on a tobacco farm in Garrard County, Kentucky, are entering the third week of a strike over claims that they have not received the pay guaranteed by a federal work visa program. The strike is part of a movement across the South and Midwest to organize migrant laborers who enter the country legally to […] By Benny Becker Oct 18 Agriculture On Strike: Migrant Workers On Visa Program Claim Unfair Pay Benny Becker
Jun 23 Agriculture High Hop(e)s: Craft Brewing Has Farmers Betting On Hops The acres devoted to growing hops doubled in the U.S. in just the last five years and the trade group Hop Growers of America estimates that 95 percent of that market belongs to farmers along the West Coast. But the craft beer craze is changing the direction for hop farms by generating demand for more […] By Nicole Erwin Jun 23 Agriculture High Hop(e)s: Craft Brewing Has Farmers Betting On Hops Nicole Erwin