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Report Puts Pressure on Animal Agriculture and Congress to Do Something About Issue of Antibiotics

Tim Mandell The Rural Blog
Five years after the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production released its landmark recommendations to remedy the public health, environment, animal welfare and rural community problems caused by industrial food animal production, a new analysis finds that the Administration and Congress have acted "regressively" in policymaking on industrial food animal system issues.

Voting Rights at a Crossroads

Barbara Arnwine and Marcia Johnson-Blanco Economic Policy Institute
The Supreme Court Decision in Shelby Is the Latest Challenge in the ‘Unfinished March’ to Full Black Access to the Ballot

Strikes Surge as Killings of Colombian Union Leaders Fall

Andrew Willis Bloomberg
Strikes, demonstrations and protests are at a record pace in Colombia this year as workers seek a bigger share of wealth generated by the country’s expanding economy. After 50 years of guerrilla warfare, the government’s success in weakening illegal armed groups has drawn investment and rewarded businessmen, while the gap between rich and poor remains considerable, according to the World Bank’s Gini index of income distribution.

Child Poverty

Columnist Charles M. Blow The New York Times

Letter From Sofia: Old Tanks and Modern Mayhem

Conn Hallinan Foreign Policy in Focus
Poor Bulgaria. Once again the Germans are headed her way—this time armed with nothing more than a change of currency and the policies of austerity that go along with it.