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Ground-Breaking UN Discussion Identifies Pathways To Food Future For Aotearoa
Friday, 21 May 2021, 9:33 amPress Release: United Fresh A pioneering United Nations discussion ‘The Future for Fruit & Vegetable Kai Systems in Aotearoa’, has identified a number of pathways for our fresh produce industry towards achieving a sustainable future for all Kiwis. Hosted by United Fresh, the UN Independent Dialogue brought together for the …
More Republican States Cut $300 Benefits, as Jobless Claims Fall
More than three-quarters of Republican-led states plan to end an extra $300-a-week in federal jobless benefits early, as unemployment claims reached a new pandemic low, likely triggering a decrease in the number of benefits recipients this summer. The development came as initial unemployment claims through regular state programs dropped to 444,000 last week, the lowest …
U.S. Jobless Claims Fall to Another Pandemic Low
Jobless claims declined to a new pandemic low last week, in a sign hiring is primed to strengthen as workers return to the labor market. Unemployment claims fell to 473,000 last week from a revised 507,000 a week earlier, the Labor Department said Thursday. Claims are now at the lowest level since mid-March 2020, when …
Animal welfare plan unveiled by government
Chris Sherwood, chief executive of the RSPCA, said: “These announcements will make a real and lasting difference to animals’ welfare, so we’re pleased the Government is committed to improving animals’ lives in the UK and abroad. We can no longer ignore the inextricable link that exists between the way we treat animals, our own health …
Watch live: Idaho Dept. of Health and Welfare to hold weekly COVID-19 meeting
BOISE, Idaho — The Idaho Dept. of Health and Welfare (IDHW) is set to hold its weekly meeting to discuss the COVID-19 situation in the state at 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday. The meeting will be live-streamed on KTVB.COM and the KTVB YouTube channel. IDHW Director Dave Jeppesen, Public Health Administrator Elke Shaw-Tulloch, Idaho Bureau of …
An Unexpected Unemployment Tax Break: What to Know
In the massive stimulus package enacted earlier this month, lawmakers inserted a last-minute exemption for many taxpayers with up to $10,200 of unemployment payments for 2020. Normally this income is fully taxable on federal returns, so the change could save many filers $1,000 or more. The brain twister, for the agency and affected taxpayers, is …
Nancy Vaughan column: Health care is available despite enrollment challenges | Columns
For the third year, there is a very short window – Nov. 1 to Dec. 15 – to sign up for health insurance through the federal marketplace; however, 2020 is challenged unlike any other with in-person assistance funding cut by more than 80 percent and advertising extremely limited. Additional efforts to undermine the marketplace – …
Covid-19’s Global Divide: As West Reels, Asia Keeps Virus at Bay
While a surge in coronavirus infections is forcing U.S. states and European countries to shut down bars, open field hospitals and limit social gatherings to small groups of people, such measures are becoming distant memories in much of Asia. For months now, life across Asia, where the virus first emerged, has mostly returned to normal. …
Venezuela’s Food Chain Is Breaking, and Millions Go Hungry
Ana Nuñez, a 62-year-old retired municipal worker in western Venezuela, says her meals often consist of just a few corn-flour pancakes, known as arepas. Even when she has money to buy groceries in the city of Maracaibo’s teeming flea market, she said that “instead of quality food they sell garbage, like animal hides and rotten …
