Tasty Morning Bytes — Alt-Weekly Diversity, Healthier Happy Meals and ‘Flashrobs’
Will the recession hurt immigrants’ move up the economic ladder? Immigrants may be the among the last to recover from the recession. (Multi-American)
Alt-Weeklies: Dancing Around Diversity? The newsrooms of alternative weekly newspapers tend to be much less diverse than their mainstream and daily counterparts. Some editors are talking about ways to change that by recruiting a more diverse workforce. (Maynard Institute)
McDonald’s Revamps Happy Meal To Include Fruit, Reduce Fries Serving Size Happy meals will have 20 percent less calories now. The fast food chain has come under fire for offering kids unhealthy food while a childhood obesity epidemic rages on. (Slate)
Ethiopian heritage camp in Va. offers togetherness to adopted kids, families White families who have adopted children from Ethiopia converge yearly for a camp in the outskirts of D.C. Parents learn Ethiopian culture basics. One adopted child says, “I don’t see brown people very often where I live. And now, I see all these other kids and families that look like mine… I know I’m not alone. It’s not just me.” (The Washington Post)
Facebook and Twitter used to plan ‘flashrob’ raid of Victoria’s Secret store A group coordinated a raid of a high-end lingerie store in Georgetown on Facebook and Twitter. “Flashrobs” have taken place elsewhere in the neighborhood. (Daily Mail)