Christina Jedra is a journalist for Civil Beat focused on investigative and in-depth reporting. Her work holds the government accountable for how it spends your tax dollars and makes decisions ...

MyPlate replaced the food pyramid. It comes from the U.S. government as a way to picture what to put on your plate. The beauty of MyPlate is in using a plate icon to "measure" the relative portion ...

Amy Pyle is the Executive Editor-in-Chief of Civil Beat. She's been an investigations and projects editor for more than two decades, most recently at USA TODAY, where she was a managing editor.