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Photograph courtesy of © The Los Angeles City College (LACC) Foundation's "Food for Thought Program." "LACC has launched a Pop-Up Food Pantry to provide free nutritional assistance to our students in need." Photographer and usage license unknown

The Kroger-Albertsons Merger Will Eat the Last Sweet Bite of Grocery Store Competition: The deal between Albertsons and Kroger would trigger store closures, job losses and cost increases for consumers

November 14, 2022 / By Daniel Flaming and Judy Wood / Economic Roundtable

Grocery bills are skyrocketing while the essential workers who stock shelves or put out fresh produce face homelessness and hunger because they are chronically underpaid. A proposed merger between the nation’s two largest grocery corporations, Albertsons and Kroger, threatens to make a bad situation even worse. 
Image of painting by artist Paul Cézanne (1839–1906), "Still life with fruit basket," painted between 1888-1890, oil on canvas. Original work in the collection of the Musée d'Orsay. This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.

Hungry at the Table: White Paper on Grocery Workers at the Kroger Company

January 11, 2022 / By Daniel Flaming, Peter Dreier, Patrick Burns and Aaron Danielson / United Food and Commercial Workers Local 21, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 324, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 770

A multi-state survey of Over 37,000 Kroger grocery store employees finds 78% food insecure and 14% homeless

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