We’ve weighed in on the massive distortions in the international sugar market before, with an eye on finding the best, most reasonable way to eliminate the tariffs and subsidies that government impose to artificially prop up industries. Sugar as a ...
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Below is a recent radio interview from the Matt Buff Radio Show in Orlando. Matt asks HLF president Mario H. Lopez about the role of HLF, communicating to audiences of recent immigrants and its relation to policy, and the recently ...
Read MoreAs Rhode Island becomes the latest jurisdiction to consider beverage taxes, HLF’s president recently appeared on the In the Dugout podcast to shed light on why beverage taxes are a bad idea. Taxing underserved communities and threatening small businesses is ...
Read MoreHLF president Mario H. Lopez appeared on the 5G Action Now podcast to talk about his recent opinion piece in the Morning Consult on the importance of closing the Digital Divide—the gap in access to communication technologies that exists for ...
Read MoreIt is easy for most Americans to not fully realize the effects of the sugar market on our economy. Sugar is an essential component to our agriculture industry that involves jobs, revenues, and affects the price of many other products. ...
Read MoreThe Department of Health and Human Services recently announced a “Safe Importation Action Plan” to address the high costs of prescription medicines. The proposed plan would set up a system which would channel drugs from Canada, outside of the scope ...
Read MoreAs foreign suppliers jockey for position in the evolving global economy, it’s time for lawmakers to take a stand against a “hack” some countries have been using to give their sugar industries an unfair advantage over our own. A new ...
Read MoreEngaging others in the digital age is likely to mean sharing personal information through the internet with the rest of the world. Tens of millions of consumers share extraordinary amounts of information–family pictures on social media, financial data from online ...
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