This infographic says it all. What the image tells us is that government subsidies are disproportionately lowering the cost of food items thought to be responsible for obesity. When you arrive at the grocery store to find that meat is cheaper than vegetables, the decision for a thrifty shopper is to consume more of foods [...]

You can file this one under strange economic relationships. As you may know, Americans have indeed been getting more obese over the last couple of decades, with increased consumption of fast foods contributing to that enlargement. During most of that period, the inflation-adjusted federal minimum wage had been falling. A recent study by the researchers [...]