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The New Normal: When checkout lines become the front lines
In the first episode of our new series, grocery store employee Erin Simmons adapts to the risks of being an essential worker.
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For rural Native communities, affordable groceries can be hours away
Emergency assistance alone can’t fix food inaccessibility for communities like the Hoh Tribe on Washington's Olympic Peninsula.
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'Ni supervisores, ni patrones': trabajadores agrícolas que transforman la industria
Dos trabajadores agrícolas de Bellingham, hartos de los malos tratos y de no tener suficiente para comprar los mismos alimentos que cultivaban, dejaron la agricultura corporativa para fundar su propia cooperativa de frutos rojos.
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'No supervisors, no boss': Upending farm labor by owning the land
Tired of mistreatment and not being able to afford the food they harvested, two Bellingham farmworkers left corporate agriculture to start their own berry cooperative.
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After their neighborhood became a food desert, disabled residents are fighting back
Bellingham's Birchwood neighborhood lost its grocery store nearly four years ago. For some locals, that means spending extra time and money that they might not have.