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This is what the striking GM workers want

The nearly 50,000 striking United Auto Workers want higher hourly wages, lump sum payments and a better profit sharing plan. They also want GM to agree to limit the use of temporary workers and give them a clearer path to permanent employment. In addition, the UAW says the two sides are far apart on other issues including health care benefits and job security.

Who’s Hurt by a Higher Minimum Wage? Young Workers.

Increasing the minimum wage is effectively creating a uniform, government workforce; one level, one pay.

What Does Invisible Labor Contribute to the Gender Pay Gap?

A conversation with Amy Westervelt, who developed the Invisible Labor Calculator to help women determine the market value of their uncompensated labor.

Don’t Feel That Pay Raise? Blame Inflation

Workers have been receiving a little better than 2% annual raises, on average, for the past three years. But when factoring in inflation, the pace of the pay increases has slowed to near zero.

Fast Food Restaurants Modestly Improving Nutritional Quality Of Food

Fast food chains across the U.S. have only modestly improved the nutritional quality of their food, reveals a study in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine.

36 Wildly Disturbing Secrets From The Kitchens Of Your Favorite Fast Food Chains

"Everything you can think of that would disgust you happens every single day, and you eat the food."

The Origin Stories of 20 Fast-Food Restaurants

How well do you really know your favorite chains? These fast-food origin stories are almost as good as the food itself. (Almost.)

Healthy Eating: How to Make the Best Choices at the Fast Food Counter

Fast food: we know it’s not healthy, and yet, as a nation, we still eat it — lots of it. In fact, a couple years ago the CDC calculated that American adults get 11 percent of their calories from fast food.[1] That’s a lot of burgers, fries, and shakesMost people don’t go to fast food restaurants looking for healthy eating options. They go because they want to treat themselves, or to satisfy the kids, or as a last resort when pressed for…

5 Ways to Divorce That Beloved Fast Food Restaurant

Lucrative is when you talk about the American fast food industry. Come on, would you say anything less of an industry recording a whopping annual revenue of $110 billion? This is all thanks to 50 million Americans eating fast food every day. Of course, I am well acquainted with how fast life is today and how everyone […]

How Fast Food Affects You Negatively

Most people realize that stopping at the drive-thru for fast food isn’t the healthiest choice. It’s no secret that fast food is typically high in fat, sodium and sugar, and low in fruits, vegetables ...

7 Healthiest Fast Food Meals

Everyone knows the one common rule to follow when trying to be healthy: don’t eat fast food. We have seven of the healthiest fast food options.

We Were Local When Local Wasn’t Cool

And while local ag markets have had ebbs and flows, a resurgence of a broader local Arizona ag market took place in the early 1990s.

10 healthy fast food meals under 500 calories

This year, resolve to eat better when fast food is on the menu .

Fast food is healthy if you strip it, no-brainer Harvard study finds

Dieting is easy — all you have to do is remove every trace of the flavor, satisfaction and general happiness from the fast-food indulgences you love. A new study out of Harvard breaks the news that…

Discover How To Navigate Tupper Like A Local

Traveling like a local... I don’t know about you, but I know that when I’m traveling, I don’t want to feel like a “tourist.” I want to experience things like a local — dine where the locals dine, discover those top-secret local swimming holes, and shop those funky off-the-beaten-path shops and stores. Then, I want to end my day by pulling up a stool next to the locals at the well patronized favorite watering hole.

Shop local, but spend big

How Domino's, Chick-fil-A and other fast-food restaurants got their names

Plucked from a dream, an old map, a daughter's birth certificate — that's how the names of some of the most famous fast-food restaurants came to be.