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Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived. — ProPublica #food

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cuts.

Sequential Fair Allocation With Replenishments: A Little Envy Goes An Exponentially Long Way
Chido Onyeze, Sean R. Sinclair, Chamsi Hssaine, Siddhartha Banerjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21753

Sequential Fair Allocation With Replenishments: A Little Envy Goes An Exponentially Long Way
We study the trade-off between envy and inefficiency in repeated resource allocation settings with stochastic replenishments, motivated by real-world systems such as food banks and medical supply chains. Specifically, we consider a model in which a decision-maker faced with stochastic demand and resource donations must trade off between an equitable and efficient allocation of resources over an infinite horizon. The decision-maker has access to storage with fixed capacity $M$, and incurs effici…

Collective action gets the goods, yet again.
It seems that the government didn't think Section 107 would hold up in court (at least not with this strike), and the Air Canada employees effectively called their bluff. This is exactly the kind of stand that needs to be taken to keep labor rights from being rolled further and further back.
(Also, I didn't realize just how tightly connected the government is with Air Canada)

Strike 'Ends Unpaid Work' As Union Reaches Deal With Air Canada – The Rover
Low wages and unpaid labour led to flight attendants using food banks, sleeping in cars.

Efficiency, Envy, and Incentives in Combinatorial Assignment
Th\`anh Nguyen, Alexander Teytelboym, Shai Vardi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13198 https://arxi…

Efficiency, Envy, and Incentives in Combinatorial Assignment
Ensuring efficiency and envy-freeness in allocating indivisible goods without money often requires randomization. However, existing combinatorial assignment mechanisms (for applications such as course allocation, food banks, and refugee resettlement) guarantee these properties either ex ante or ex post, but not both. We propose a new class of mechanisms based on Competitive Equilibrium from Random Incomes (CERI): Agents receive random token budgets and select optimal lotteries at competitive pr…