In the wake of the newly-released Ryan budget proposal, AEI agricultural economist Vincent Smith discusses the implications for agricultural subsidies and explains why more budget-cutting is imperative.

The biggest problem with the labor market right now is that wages are too high. A number of reasons help explain why wages do not and will not drop, beginning with federal and state minimum-wage laws.

Technological developments have driven the obesity plague, but technological change may also be more successful at reducing obesity than attempts to change people's eating and exercising habits have been.

Polls suggest Americans prefer personal responsibility to punitive taxes in combating the obesity problem.

Your beverage might soon contain the cost of universal health care.

A ban on new fast-food restaurants in south Los Angeles does not address the real causes of obesity.

The pending privatization of Alitalia has become a very complex situation.

No one knows whether there will be a 2012 farm bill, but we do know that it there is one, nutrition programs -- food stamps, school lunches, WIC, etc. -- will take up the lion’s share of farm bill funding, well in excess of $90 billion a year. But is the funding serving the neediest Americans? Find out on Thursday at AEI.