Sentences with phrase «food purchasing power»

Strong farm to school programs, and increased local food purchasing power, require strong breakfast, lunch, afterschool, and summer meal programs, with most students and staff eating at school.

Not exact matches

Prices on food, such as pork (and, in turn, bacon), may also fluctuate, since a drop in Chinese purchasing power would likely force U.S. farmers to produce less, potentially driving up costs at home.

Workers need a big pay raise to catch up for a period where their standard of living has lagged, and the economy benefits from their increased purchasing power, says Paul Meinema, president of the United Food and Commercial Workers Canada, with 100,000 members in Ontario.

All the Main Street got was less purchasing power for everything while incomes were mainly stagnant — less purchasing power for rents, education, houses and health care; food also went up in price.

«That has had a direct impact on people's capacity to engage in productive employment... limited earnings in the family, and that has resulted in a lack of purchasing power to be able to access the food and access the market.»

The poor couldn't afford to buy food: the demand was there; the purchasing power wasn't.

This statement refers not to food handouts but to policies that influence purchasing power, food prices and distribution practices.

Melinda's growth is being propelled in large part by four key factors: the increasing popularity of spicy foods; America's rapidly expanding population of Central, South American and Caribbean immigrants; the widely recognized health benefits of chile peppers; and the growing purchasing power of Millennials who are more apt to experiment with new spices and flavor profiles.

The Humane Society of the United States applauds Target — the nation's fourth - largest food retailer with nearly 1,800 locations in 49 states — for wielding its immense purchasing power to make a huge improvement in animal welfare by eliminating controversial pig gestation crates from its pork supply chain.

NCGA helps unify natural food co-ops in order to optimize operational and marketing resources, strengthen purchasing power, and ultimately offer more value to natural food co-op owners and shoppers everywhere.

The group, Mr Pratt said, was using its position as Australia's biggest export shipping container user to use its shipping container purchasing power to lower shipping rates for its food customers.

Increased purchasing power in China has helped fuel demand for protein rich and premium imported foods, while well - publicised domestic food safety scandals have further spurred demand for food imports in China.

If food and gas prices were included in the CPI, the rate of inflation would be closer to 10 percent, and, at that rate, the net purchasing power of earnings in ten years would be less than the initial investment, meaning you would have lost money.

Increasing health awareness, rising food and safety concerns and improved purchasing power dictate that the future -LSB-...]

New York City Department of Education (New York), Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles), Chicago Public Schools (Chicago), Miami - Dade County Public Schools (Miami), Dallas Independent School District (Dallas), Orange County Public Schools (Orlando), Broward County Public Schools (Fort Lauderdale), Clark County Public Schools (Las Vegas), School District of Philadelphia (Philadelphia), Baltimore Public Schools (Baltimore), and Boston Public Schools (Boston) will coordinate menus to improve purchasing power from food providers so that costs are kept low.

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Last week, the Washington Post reported that the Urban School Food Alliance (USFA), a forward - thinking group of six large urban school districts, is using its considerable joint purchasing power to replace the spork with compostable forks, spoons and knives, a change that reportedly will affect 2.8 million children in 4,500 schools.

They can, and San Francisco schools recently signed on to direct their substantial purchasing power toward healthy, local food.

The idea behind FOCUS is simple: large school districts procure so much food that they have considerable market power (second only to the U.S. military when it comes to food purchasing), which FOCUS helps them leverage to pressure manufacturers into producing better food.

The six districts formed the Urban School Food Alliance in 2012 to combine their purchasing power of $ 520 million to force lower prices on better quality food, supplies and more environmentally friendly packaging and cutlFood Alliance in 2012 to combine their purchasing power of $ 520 million to force lower prices on better quality food, supplies and more environmentally friendly packaging and cutlfood, supplies and more environmentally friendly packaging and cutlery.

PepsiCo Purchase, NY Food & Beverage 1,145 million green kWh, 100 % of total power used The conglomerate, which is separate from the Pepsi bottling groups, made a splash when its headquarters went all green with its power buys in early 2007.

«The only rationale for this to hold would be for climate change to have such a strong impact on the non-agricultural economy that people would lose purchasing power and thus would be so poor they couldn't afford the food they need to meet the requirements,» Schmidhuber said.

I find myself skipping breakfast because I am limited with food choices and often find it too expensive to purchase separate bags of power foods to mix up in a cereal or shake.

There results, therefore, a dissipation of the farmer's purchasing power in various collateral charges with a corresponding loss to the industry whose business, after all, is the distribution of plant food.

Temporary factors, including the damping effect of higher food and energy prices on consumer purchasing power and spending as well as supply chain disruptions associated with the tragic events in Japan, appear to account for only some of the recent weakness in economic activity.

So for me, I would think the CAPE is very relevant and that stocks are reflecting higher margins due to lowered input costs or COGS... If we have to print more money to «save» housing and banking, this would it seem be to the detriment of most businesses that will continue to see their purchasing power erode vs. Oil and Food costs...

Records the change in purchasing power by measuring changes, over time, in the weighted average price of consumer goods and services such as food, transport and medical care.

With Europe's dynamic pet food market growing quickly in developing regions like Latin America, Eastern Europe and Asia; and even Western Europe, this exclusive event provided a valuable opportunity to learn about innovative, healthy pet food products to capture pet owners» attention and purchasing power.

I'm thoroughly happy I purchased The Power of Training Dogs with Food, Michael Ellis is an awesome dog trainer!

Travelers can purchase day passes to the lounge, which includes free wifi, complimentary food and alcoholic beverages, power outlets, reading materials, and cable TV.

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Consumers also have a role to play, by checking food labels and using their own purchasing power to pressure snack food companies to cut conflict palm oil from their ingredients.