A roundup of food policy topics
What’s Hot: NYC’s Food Delivery Minimum Wage Law Temporarily Blocked
This month, a judge blocked the food delivery minimum wage law from going into effect in NYC. The reasoning behind the hold is to allow a hearing for a lawsuit filed by Doordash and Grubhub against New York City. The law being blocked would increase the minimum wage for delivery workers to $17.96 an hour before tips.
Delivery Apps, including Grubhub, Seamless, and Uber Eats, claim that the law will harm their businesses as well as that of the delivery drivers, rather than helping them. A representative from Doordash stated that, “Today’s decision is an early and promising victory for consumers, local businesses, and delivery workers across New York City, protecting them from the harmful and lasting impacts of an extreme earnings standard that resulted from a fundamentally broken process. We hope that this puts us on the path towards the city establishing a more reasonable earnings standard that reflects how these platforms are used by New Yorkers,”
Food Policy Watchdog: New UN Report Reveals that 122 Million People Have Been Pushed into Hunger Since 2019
A new report released by the UN finds that more than 122 million people have been pushed into hunger since 2019. The most evident causes are the war in Ukraine, the COVID-19 pandemic, and repeated weather shocks.
The report also identified that there has been progress toward reducing hunger in Asia and Latin America, but...
Images of the Whitegate fuel protests earlier this month were altered to make it appear gardaí were violent towards protesters. The AI-doctored images were shared widely online, including by inter...