Elina T. Page
@elinatpage.bsky.social
Economist and Union Steward. Food Policy, Food Security, Food Safety, and Nutrition. Views are my own. (she/her/hers)
United States, November 2025.
November 7, 2025 at 11:04 AM
United States, November 2025.
Food insecurity rates are a critical poverty indicator. For the first time in 30 years, we will not have national and state-level data on how many households had difficulty acquiring enough food to meet their household needs.
Exclusive | Trump Administration Cancels Annual Hunger Survey
The government has been measuring food insecurity since the mid-1990s, but now says the report has become “overly politicized.”
www.wsj.com
September 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Food insecurity rates are a critical poverty indicator. For the first time in 30 years, we will not have national and state-level data on how many households had difficulty acquiring enough food to meet their household needs.
Of potential interest given the current funding environment.
Grad students, post-docs, and early-career faculty engaged in social-environmental research are facing an unprecedented research landscape with decreased levels of funding. Join us on 9/22 for a webinar looking at low to no cost ways to sustain research: buff.ly/9j5jloH
September 9, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Of potential interest given the current funding environment.
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Between 638 and 720 million people faced hunger in 2024.
Explore the interactive @fao.org World Hunger Map to browse the latest global estimates of hunger and food insecurity in the world.
🗺️ www.fao.org/interactive/...
#SOFI2025
Explore the interactive @fao.org World Hunger Map to browse the latest global estimates of hunger and food insecurity in the world.
🗺️ www.fao.org/interactive/...
#SOFI2025
August 1, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Between 638 and 720 million people faced hunger in 2024.
Explore the interactive @fao.org World Hunger Map to browse the latest global estimates of hunger and food insecurity in the world.
🗺️ www.fao.org/interactive/...
#SOFI2025
Explore the interactive @fao.org World Hunger Map to browse the latest global estimates of hunger and food insecurity in the world.
🗺️ www.fao.org/interactive/...
#SOFI2025
And a happy public service recognition week to you too.
May 5, 2025 at 2:12 PM
And a happy public service recognition week to you too.
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New HHS poverty guidelines mean that even for a single adult working FT year-round, the federal minimum wage is officially a poverty wage: aspe.hhs.gov/topics/pover...
Poverty Guidelines
The 2025 poverty guidelines will be on public display at the Federal Register tomorrow and will be published in the next few days.The Poverty Guidelines API is now available with the 2025 data.U.S. Fe...
aspe.hhs.gov
January 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
New HHS poverty guidelines mean that even for a single adult working FT year-round, the federal minimum wage is officially a poverty wage: aspe.hhs.gov/topics/pover...
We need similar studies for the dollar store surge observed over the last decade. I fear the outcomes will be analogous…
"Walmart makes the places it operates in poorer than they would be if it had never shown up at all. Sometimes consumer prices are an incomplete, even misleading, signal of economic well-being."
Fascinating studies on the broader effects of Walmart:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Fascinating studies on the broader effects of Walmart:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Walmart Effect
New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices.
www.theatlantic.com
January 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
We need similar studies for the dollar store surge observed over the last decade. I fear the outcomes will be analogous…
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📢 CALL FOR PAPERS! Let’s connect and shape the future of economics and policy!
📊 SGE 2025 Annual Conference
🗓️ April 4, 2025
📍 D.C.
Seeking abstracts for papers, posters, and sessions on labor, housing, health, inequality, trade, AI, & more!
📅 Submit by Fri, Jan 31, 2025
🔗 Info below:
📊 SGE 2025 Annual Conference
🗓️ April 4, 2025
📍 D.C.
Seeking abstracts for papers, posters, and sessions on labor, housing, health, inequality, trade, AI, & more!
📅 Submit by Fri, Jan 31, 2025
🔗 Info below:
Call for Papers: Society of Government Economists 2025 Annual Conference – The Society of Government Economists
sge-econ.org
January 10, 2025 at 12:24 AM
📢 CALL FOR PAPERS! Let’s connect and shape the future of economics and policy!
📊 SGE 2025 Annual Conference
🗓️ April 4, 2025
📍 D.C.
Seeking abstracts for papers, posters, and sessions on labor, housing, health, inequality, trade, AI, & more!
📅 Submit by Fri, Jan 31, 2025
🔗 Info below:
📊 SGE 2025 Annual Conference
🗓️ April 4, 2025
📍 D.C.
Seeking abstracts for papers, posters, and sessions on labor, housing, health, inequality, trade, AI, & more!
📅 Submit by Fri, Jan 31, 2025
🔗 Info below:
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Most nutrition for the money?
Grains, legumes, and tubers.
True in 1894, still true today.
Grains, legumes, and tubers.
True in 1894, still true today.
Food Economics, 1894 Edition.
Beans have always been efficient.
Beans have always been efficient.
January 6, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Most nutrition for the money?
Grains, legumes, and tubers.
True in 1894, still true today.
Grains, legumes, and tubers.
True in 1894, still true today.
Food Economics, 1894 Edition.
Beans have always been efficient.
Beans have always been efficient.
January 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Food Economics, 1894 Edition.
Beans have always been efficient.
Beans have always been efficient.
Another key finding: of those 770,000 experiencing homelessness, nearly 150,000 were children, an increase of 33 percent over 2023.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. saw an 18.1% increase in homelessness this year, with more than 770,000 people counted as homeless.
December 28, 2024 at 1:50 PM
Another key finding: of those 770,000 experiencing homelessness, nearly 150,000 were children, an increase of 33 percent over 2023.
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Also glad to see dollar stores research by folks like Wenhui Feng, @elinatpage.bsky.social, @seanbcash.bsky.social.
For many, dollar stores are important, if under-explored parts of food access.
(here's a link to their AJPH paper cited in the article: ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10....)
For many, dollar stores are important, if under-explored parts of food access.
(here's a link to their AJPH paper cited in the article: ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10....)
Dollar Stores and Food Access for Rural Households in the United States, 2008‒2020 | AJPH | Vol. 113 Issue 3
Dollar stores have rapidly expanded their food offerings in recent years. These foods tend to be higher in calories and lower in nutrients, raising public health concerns, especially in rural and low-...
ajph.aphapublications.org
December 18, 2024 at 7:40 PM
Also glad to see dollar stores research by folks like Wenhui Feng, @elinatpage.bsky.social, @seanbcash.bsky.social.
For many, dollar stores are important, if under-explored parts of food access.
(here's a link to their AJPH paper cited in the article: ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10....)
For many, dollar stores are important, if under-explored parts of food access.
(here's a link to their AJPH paper cited in the article: ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10....)
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Since 2009, Civil Eats has been your trusted source for food and agriculture news. We pride ourselves on our small but mighty team who focus our coverage on the U.S. food system and all of the people that power it and inspire innovation within it.
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December 16, 2024 at 3:15 PM
Hello BlueSky!
Since 2009, Civil Eats has been your trusted source for food and agriculture news. We pride ourselves on our small but mighty team who focus our coverage on the U.S. food system and all of the people that power it and inspire innovation within it.
Since 2009, Civil Eats has been your trusted source for food and agriculture news. We pride ourselves on our small but mighty team who focus our coverage on the U.S. food system and all of the people that power it and inspire innovation within it.
The release of the 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans next year has the potential to be very interesting.
More beans and less red meat: Nutrition experts weigh in on US dietary guidelines
Americans should eat more beans, peas and lentils and cut back on red and processed meats and starchy vegetables.
apnews.com
December 12, 2024 at 2:44 PM
The release of the 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans next year has the potential to be very interesting.
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Much of the food you eat this holiday season comes to your table from the hard-working hands of farm workers who harvest our food. #WeFeedYou
November 27, 2024 at 5:00 AM
Much of the food you eat this holiday season comes to your table from the hard-working hands of farm workers who harvest our food. #WeFeedYou
These are the sort of life-affirming texts I need. Please and thank you.
November 26, 2024 at 1:36 AM
These are the sort of life-affirming texts I need. Please and thank you.
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Cost of child care for one child can be more than rent in some US counties blog.dol.gov/2024/11/19/n...
NEW DATA: Childcare costs remain an almost prohibitive expense
We updated our National Database of Childcare Prices with data from 2019-2022 and found that U.S. families spend between 8.9% and 16.0% of their median income on full-day care for just one child.
blog.dol.gov
November 19, 2024 at 5:03 PM
Cost of child care for one child can be more than rent in some US counties blog.dol.gov/2024/11/19/n...
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music is really loud math
November 16, 2024 at 8:28 PM
music is really loud math
New national- and state-level overweight and obesity prevalences and forecasts published in the Lancet.
By 2050, in most states, a projected two in three adults (≥25 years) will have obesity.
By 2050, in most states, a projected two in three adults (≥25 years) will have obesity.
National-level and state-level prevalence of overweight and obesity among children, adolescents, and adults in the USA, 1990–2021, and forecasts up to 2050
Existing policies have failed to address overweight and obesity. Without major reform,
the forecasted trends will be devastating at the individual and population level,
and the associated disease burd...
www.thelancet.com
November 15, 2024 at 5:16 PM
New national- and state-level overweight and obesity prevalences and forecasts published in the Lancet.
By 2050, in most states, a projected two in three adults (≥25 years) will have obesity.
By 2050, in most states, a projected two in three adults (≥25 years) will have obesity.
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Who knows of small grants that are suitable for graduate students? It’s time to update my list!
November 13, 2024 at 12:08 AM
Who knows of small grants that are suitable for graduate students? It’s time to update my list!
I’m here. I think about cheese a lot. Oh, also economics.
November 12, 2024 at 10:23 PM
I’m here. I think about cheese a lot. Oh, also economics.