Oppose Ag-Only Farm Bill: Spends More Than Senate Bill; Changes Make Subsidies Permanent
July 11, 2013
A Depression-era program intended to save the nation’s farmers from ruin has grown into a 21st-century crutch enabling affluent growers and...
Here is a good line: Unenlightened farm policy with its massive subsidies for junk food ingredients has played a pivotal role in shaping our...
In June, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives rejected, 195-234, a trillion-dollar farm bill that included agriculture...
The farm bill making its way through Congress includes a significant change — away from direct payments and toward crop insurance — in the...
For the past 46 years Richard Barber has coaxed peanuts from the earth in western Marion County, but it wasn't until last year that for the...
Watch All In with Chris Hayes for the latest on the battle in Washington over food stamps and the Farm Bill, as the House passed a new...
Concerned about ever-increasing federal food stamp spending and the incentives it affords to the poor, conservatives in the House of...
WASHINGTON — In this era of federal austerity, appetites are souring over spending taxpayer money on dinner parties in India featuring...
SAN ANGELO, Texas — Remember when the House rejected a trillion-dollar version of the farm bill a month ago? I predicted the subsidy...
A lot has been written about the initial failure of the farm bill to pass the House of Representatives in June, and the passage last week of...
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Volume XVIII No. 37
Possible action in Syria has become the most recent excuse du jour for Pentagon boosters...
July 11, 2013