Morning Update: Fast Food Backward

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A few months ago, I told you about fast food workers in New York protesting over pay. On Thursday, over 400 of them hit the protest lines again. Their goal was to disrupt business at several New York fast food restaurants Source: Rush Limbaugh – All Content

BOOMTOWN 2: Fast Food Giant Lobbied to Get into Food Stamp Game

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The purpose of the food stamp program, officially known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), is to provide nutritious foods to the poor. But according to Sean Hannity’s one-hour special, “Boomtown 2: The Business of Food Stamps,” which featured Government Accountability Institute President and Co-founder Peter Schweizer and Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K…. Read more »

Univision Receives Peabody Award for Fast and Furious Documentary

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Univision News won a 2013 Peabody Award for its special on Operation Fast and Furious on its magazine show Aqui y Ahora in September 2012. “All of these prestigious national recognitions, an unprecedented achievement for a Spanish-language media company, speak to the caliber of the work that our News division is doing to inform and… Read more »

New York City fast food workers: ‘We want change and we don’t mean pennies’

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Striking workers, allies and supporters, and a healthy group of reporters formed the crowd outside of a midtown Manhattan Wendy’s restaurant Thursday at lunchtime, as hundreds of workers at dozens of New York City fast food restaurants went on strike. CNN and Telemundo were among the media outlets represented, suggesting that this strike, the larger… Read more »