Plenty, a vertical farm backed by $940 billion in funding from investors that include Driscoll’s (DLD Ventures), Walmart and Softbank, announced that it was reorganizing under Chapter 11 in March 2025 ...

Florida law requires employers of 25 or more workers to use E-Verify to check new hires went into effect in July 2023. Employers face $1,000 a day fines for noncompliance. After 18 months, no Florida ...

An average 545,000 workers are employed by 4,500 establishments in NAICS 3116, animal slaughtering and processing, earning an average $1,050 a week in 2024 or $26 an hour. Over half of meat employment ...

The US normally has about 320 million egg-laying chickens but lost 10 to 15 percent to the H5N1 virus or bird flu, driving egg prices to a record $7 a dozen early in 2025. DOJ in spring 2025 launched ...

There are two to four million unauthorized foreigners in the EU-27 countries, compared with 12 to 14 million in the US. Polls suggest that most Europeans favor a path to legalization for unauthorized ...

President Trump took office January 20, 2025, declared an “invasion at the southern border,” and signed several executive orders to reduce unauthorized migration. Trump declared a border emergency to ...

Wonderful Nurseries sued the ALRB in federal court in December 2024, alleging that the ALRB’s certification of the UFW despite the opposition of many Wonderful employees violated its due process ...

President Trump in March 2025 threatened 25 percent tariffs on all goods imported from Canada and Mexico except Canadian oil. Mexico was the top trading partner of the US in 2024, supplying over 40 ...