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1st Quarter 2025 | Choices Magazine Online
Automatic milking systems (AMS) can be promising labor-saving technologies that can help improve milk yield and potentially serve as an alternative to conventional milking systems (Bohj et al., 2022). While AMS reduce the demand for low-skilled workers for milking-related activities, some skilled labor is still needed for monitoring AMS, a task that might demand other skills and training that low-skilled laborers may lack. These skilled workers may require higher wages.
1st Quarter 2025 | Choices Magazine Online
Automatic milking systems (AMS) can be promising labor-saving technologies that can help improve milk yield and potentially serve as an alternative to conventional milking systems (Bohj et al., 2022). While AMS reduce the demand for low-skilled workers for milking-related activities, some skilled labor is still needed for monitoring AMS, a task that might demand other skills and training that low-skilled laborers may lack. These skilled workers may require higher wages.
From sweet tooth to healthy choices: How Chilean food policies are changing household diets
AE adult male equivalent CEM coarsened exact matching FAFH food-away-from-home FAH food-at-home FM food modification HBS Household budget survey (Encuesta de presupuestos familiares in Spanish) INE Instituto National de Estadistica (Chilean National Institute of Statistics in English) LPM linear probability model TPM two-part model 1 INTRODUCTION Several countries have adopted food labeling requirements and regulations on food marketing worldwide to guide consumers toward healthier food...
Letting low-income Americans buy groceries online with SNAP benefits decreased the share of people without enough food
The share of low-income U.S. families experiencing food insufficiency—sometimes or often not having enough food to eat—fell from 24.5% to 22.5% at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, we found in a new study published in the November 2023 issue of Food Policy. This two-percentage-point decline coincided with the rapid expansion of a pilot program that allows the purchase of groceries online with benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as SNAP.
Letting low-income Americans buy groceries online in 2020 with SNAP benefits decreased the share of people without enough food - new research
The share of low-income U.S. families experiencing food insufficiency – sometimes or often not having enough food to eat – fell from 24.5% to 22.5% at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, we found in a new study published in the November 2023 issue of Food Policy. This 2 percentage-point decline coincided with the rapid expansion of a pilot program that allows the purchase of groceries online with benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as SNAP.
Letting low-income Americans buy groceries online in 2020 with SNAP benefits decreased the share of people without enough food - new research
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Letting low-income Americans buy groceries online in 2020 with SNAP benefits decreased the share of people without enough food - new research
The share of low-income U.S. families experiencing food insufficiency[1] – sometimes or often not having enough food to eat – fell from 24.5% to 22.5% at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, we found in a new study published in the November 2023 issue of Food Policy[2]. This 2 percentage-point decline coincided with the rapid expansion of a pilot program[3] that allows the purchase of groceries online with benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as SNAP.
Extra Food Assistance Cushioned The Early Pandemic’s Blow On Kids’ Mental Health
The Big Idea Despite the heightened poverty and unemployment seen when the COVID-19 pandemic got underway, many low-income U.S. children did not experience a decline in their emotional and mental health, we found in a new study. We looked specifically at kids whose families were participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – commonly known as SNAP – the government program that helps low-income Americans afford food.
Mortgage Serious Delinquency Rate Decreased in February
"It is a shit storm out here. You have no idea the kind of crap people are pulling, and everyone's walking around like they're in a goddamn Enya video." - Mark Baum Even if the stock market holds up, something is going to have to break in a big way.
Everyone Is Just Pretending Nothing's Wrong
"It is a shit storm out here. You have no idea the kind of crap people are pulling, and everyone's walking around like they're in a goddamn Enya video." - Mark Baum Even if the stock market holds up, something is going to have to break in a big way.
Extra food assistance cushioned the early pandemic's blow on kids' mental health
Despite the heightened poverty and unemployment seen when the COVID-19 pandemic got underway, many low-income U.S. children did not experience a decline in their emotional and mental health, we found in a new study. We looked specifically at kids whose families were participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program—commonly known as SNAP—the government program that helps low-income Americans afford food.
Extra food assistance cushioned the early pandemic's blow on kids' mental health
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.)
Extra food assistance cushioned the early pandemic's blow on kids' mental health
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Grace Melo, Texas A&M University; Pourya Valizadeh, Texas A&M University, and Rodolfo M.
Choices Magazine Online
Luis Peña-Lévano, Grace Melo and Shaheer Burney JEL Classifications: J01, J09, J15, J18, J28, J44, J64, D19, P46, D90, H31, Q13, R49 Keywords: Agricultural production, Covid-19, Supply chains, Labor, Unemployment Citation: Peña-Lévano, L., G. Melo, and S. Burney. 2020. "Theme Overview: COVID-19 and the Agriculture Industry: Labor, Supply Chains, and Consumer Behavior" Choices. Quarter 3.
Choices Magazine Online
Grace Melo JEL Classifications: D19, P46, D90, H31 Keywords: Consumer behavior, Economic downturn, Lockdowns, Retail, Uncertainty Citation: Melo, Grace. 2020. "The Path Forward: U.S. Consumer and Food Retail Responses to COVID-19." Choices. Quarter 3.
3rd Quarter 2020 | Choices Magazine Online
Luis Peña-Lévano, Shaheer Burney, Grace Melo, and Cesar Escalante Authors: Designer and creator of the infographic: Luis Peña-Lévano (lpenalevano@ufl.edu) is Faculty Lecturer, Food and Resource Economics Department, Plant City, FL. Consultants/Contributors: Shaheer Burney (shaheer.burney@uwrf.edu) is Assistant Professor of Agricultural Business, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Wisconsin-River Falls, River Falls, WI.
Extra food assistance cushioned the early pandemic's blow on kids' mental health
aogreatkim/iStock/Getty Images Plus via Getty Images The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Despite the heightened poverty and unemployment seen when the COVID-19 pandemic got underway, many low-income U.S. children did not experience a decline in their emotional and mental health, we found in a new study.
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