Finland. Finland enacted a law in July 2024 that allows border guards to refuse entry to asylum seekers who cross its 830-mile border with Russia. Finland accused Russia of weaponizing migrants by ...

Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau has been in power since 2015; the next election must be held by October 20, 2025. Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre blames Trudeau for admitting too many ...

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris in August 2024 blamed “corporate price gouging” by meatpackers and food manufacturers for high grocery prices. Most economists disagreed, pointing to ...

Florida’s SB 1718 in 2023 imposed state sanctions on employers who hire unauthorized workers. In April 2024, Florida enacted HB 433 to block local governments such as Miami-Dade from requiring ...

US meatpacking (NAICS 31161 animal slaughtering and processing) includes 2,564 establishments that employed an average 545,000 workers in 2023 who earned an average $1,020 a week or $53,000 a year if ...

USDA reported that farmers spent $48 billion on labor in 2023, making hired labor 10 percent of total farm production expenses. Crop farms accounted for three-quarters of the labor expenses. The ...

UN leaders met in New York City to discuss global issues amidst record temperatures and wars in the Middle East and Ukraine. Since the Paris agreement of 2015 to restrict carbon emissions, China has ...

There were three major farm labor issues in California and the US in summer 2024: H-2As, FLCs, and the unintended effects of new laws and regulations. The H-2A program quadrupled in size over the past ...

President Joe Biden and ex-President Donald Trump sparred over immigration in June 2024. Biden said he was managing migration and respecting American values, while Trump decried the border chaos that ...

The Agricultural Labor Relations Board certified the UFW as the bargaining representative of employees at Wonderful’s Wasco nursery, the largest US largest grapevine nursery, after the UFW submitted ...