logo
welcome
The Atlantic

The Atlantic

Get Ready for Higher Food Prices

The Atlantic
Summary
Nutrition label

80% Informative

American farming depends on undocumented workers; if the Trump administration were to enact “the largest deportation operation in American history” and deport every undocumented immigrant living in the United States , somewhere between 40 to 50 percent of the people who plant our crops and pick our fruit would leave the domestic workforce.

American -grown staples would get more expensive owing to a domestic labor shortage, and imported foods would too, because they would be subject to double-digit import taxes.

If Chinese imports are subject to 60 to 100 percent tariffs, they would be subject to 10 to 20 percent tariffs.

Those taxes would be passed onto consumers, especially in the short term.

Immigration and tariff policies would affect all the food we eat: snacks, school lunches, lattes, pet food, fast food, fancy restaurant dinners.

VR Score

82

Informative language

80

Neutral language

54

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

54

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

short-lived

External references

29

https://www.uschamber.com/workforce/the-states-suffering-most-from-the-labor-shortagehttps://rural.as.cornell.edu/undocumented-farmworkers-nys#:~:text=Over%2050%25%20of%20the%20farmworkers,workers%20from%20Mexico%20and%20Guatemalahttps://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/09/09/economic-ratings-and-concerns/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/25/us/unaccompanied-migrant-child-workers-exploitation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.N04.5Aid.SmaKleDdOdLU&smid=url-sharehttps://resourcetrade.earth/?year=2022&exporter=156&importer=842&category=1&units=value&autozoom=1https://www.perkins.com/en_GB/campaigns/powernews/features/california--the-state-that-feeds-america.html#:~:text=Today%2C%20so%20large%20is%20the,the%20top%20two%20export%20destinations.https://cmsny.org/agricultural-workers-rosenbloom-083022/https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/11/trump-trade-policies-will-fuel-freight-rates-consumers-pay-price.htmlhttps://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/tending-americas-food-supply-meat-dairy-industrieshttps://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/03/business/avocado-imports-mexico.htmlhttps://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/ag-and-food-statistics-charting-the-essentials/agricultural-trade/https://cdn.americanprogress.org/content/uploads/2021/01/01114806/EW-FoodSupply-factsheet.pdfhttps://www.cnn.com/2024/11/06/politics/heres-what-trump-is-proposing-for-the-economy/index.htmlhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/02/03/worker-shortage-restaurants-hotels-economy/https://www.nmpf.org/wp-content/uploads/immigration-survey-090915.pdfhttps://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/gallery/chart-detail/?chartId=95001#:~:text=The%20United%20States%20imports%20the,originally%20published%20September%2026%2C%202018.https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/gallery/chart-detail/?chartId=107008https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/15/nyregion/migrant-delivery-unlicensed-moped.htmlhttps://www.kansascityfed.org/ten/ask-an-economist-labor-constraints-and-strong-demand-are-driving-robust-food-services-inflation/https://www.ft.com/content/b7ab3948-9941-4bd6-a648-adbb8fed806bhttps://wamu.org/story/14/09/01/these_5_crops_are_still_hand_harvested_and_its_hard_work/https://www.eater.com/2017/2/28/14749392/undocumented-workers-restaurant-illegalhttps://www.bakerinstitute.org/research/feeding-america-how-immigrants-sustain-us-agriculture#:~:text=Around%2011%20million%20individuals%20in,13%5Dhttps://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/gallery/chart-detail/?chartId=108472#:~:text=Consumer%20demand%20for%20seafood%20in,Service%20topic%20page%20on%20aquaculture.https://budgetlab.yale.edu/research/fiscal-macroeconomic-and-price-estimates-tariffs-under-both-non-retaliation-and-retaliationhttps://www.producebluebook.com/know-your-produce-commodity/cherries/#:~:text=Sweet%20cherry%20picking%20is%20labor,from%20trees%20as%20they%20ripen.https://www.latimes.com/food/story/2020-05-26/meatpacking-industry-immigrant-undocumented-workershttps://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=2ks12ctSXwghttps://magazine.wsu.edu/2022/02/11/asparagus-2/

Affiliate links

no affiliate links