Trump in August 2026 lifted tariffs on 660 million pounds of foreign beef to reduce retail meat prices. The US cattle herd is at a 75-year low due to drought, market uncertainty and high feed costs, ...

The EU’s Entry/Exit System collects biometric data including photos and fingerprints from non-EU citizens entering and exiting the 29-nation Schengen area. After the EES was activated in April 2026, ...

The US refused to renew the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement or USMCA in July 2026, opting for annual renewals instead of the 15-year renewal embodied in the treaty. Two-way trade between Canada ...

Alaska has 365 million acres. A million Alaska acres typically burn in wildfires each year; a record 6.6 million acres burned in 2004 and five million acres burned in 2015, but fewer than 100,000 ...

The legacy of Cesar Chavez continues to be debated. A woman volunteer sued the UFW and affiliated UFW foundations in September 2026 alleging that Chavez raped her in 1973. The Cesar Chavez Foundation ...

The number of unauthorized foreigners rose from about 11 million between 2010 and 2020 to almost 16 million in 2024, including a jump of 1.6 million between 2022 and 2023. Mexicans were almost ...

Agriculture employed a quarter of the world’s workers in 2019. The share of the world’s workers employed in agriculture fell from 1.1 billion or 40 percent of 2.6 billion workers in 2000 to 884 ...

The US imports 60 percent of the fresh fruit and 40 percent of the fresh vegetables available to US residents. Mexico is the leading supplier of fresh fruit and vegetable imports. The import share of ...

Five million Mexican-born farm workers are employed on North American farms sometime during a typical year, including 50,000 in Canada, three million in Mexico, and two million in the US. Most Mexican ...

Many small island nations offer golden passports that grant citizenship in exchange for donations or investments of $100,000 to $1 million. Many industrial countries including the US offer investors ...

The UFW persuaded the Legislature to amend the ALRA several times. In 2002, the ALRA was amended to provide for Mandatory Mediation and Conciliation (MMC) if certified unions could not negotiate ...

The ILO estimated that the world’s labor force was 3.6 billion in 2023, including 2.2 billion men and 1.4 billion women. The labor force participation rate, the share of persons 15 and older who are ...