The National Confectioners Association reports candy makers support nearly 700,000 jobs, with about 58,000 jobs created in confectionery manufacturing alone.

Most Americans are “low-income” consumers these days — including people we used to think of as “middle-class.” And you can blame the long-term effects of the Great Recession.

SNAP is one of those programs that people tend to believe only impacts low-income people — but like everything in government, it creates ripples throughout the economy. 

The U.S. honey industry had a total economic output of $4.74 billion in 2017, according to a new study from the University of California Agricultural Issues Center. 

 Post-interpack momentum allays apprehensions about Greece in the Euro Zone, but global hot spots, consumer demands and a lack of engineers complicate a general optimism about the future.