Fast-food workers must work nearly an hour to afford meals they serve

Fast-food employees are continuing to afford necessities as prices remain elevated. To afford fast-food meals at the places they work, it requires more than double the number of hours of the average worker, according to a recent report. 

It underscores a broader economic issue: "The affordability crisis has reached every corner of the food economy, including those working within it," Sylvain Charlebois, professor and senior director of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University in Halifax...