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Nearly 28,000 Farmers Got USDA Payments for 32 Straight Years, Worth $19 Billion Total
7 Farm Facts to Get Straight Before Farm Bill Debate
When the House considers the farm bill this morning, watch out for defenders of unlimited farm subsidies delivering misinformation.
Two-Faced Farm Bill Subjects Hungry Americans, Not Farm Subsidy Recipients, to Stricter Work Requirements
Anyone who has been following the debate over the House farm bill knows lawmakers are closely watching the stricter work requirements proposed for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or...
Thank You for (Subsidizing) Smoking
Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year, including more than 41,000 deaths from secondhand smoke. So why are American taxpayers still subsidizing farmers to grow tobacco...
Will the House Farm Bill Leave No Billionaire Behind?
The 23andMe Farm Bill?
Under current law, numerous loopholes in federal farm subsidy programs distribute the lion's share of farm subsidies to the largest and richest farms
Why is Sonny Perdue Lobbying for a Farm Bill That Snubs President Trump?
Here are six ways the bill snubs President Trump's February budget request.
6 Ways the House Farm Bill Betrays Perdue’s Principles
The farm bill produced by the House Agriculture Committee violates many of the principles developed by U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue.
6 Strikes Against the House Farm Bill
Every federal farm bill is a chance to feed hungry Americans, build healthier diets, support family farmers and reduce farm pollution
As House Weighs GOP Farm Bill, Subsidy Spending Keeps Soaring
Federal farm subsidies are now likely to cost almost $12.6 billion more than originally anticipated when lawmakers passed the 2014 Farm Bill.
Top 8 Farm Subsidy Loopholes
Our farm safety net is already so filled with loopholes that the top 3 percent of farms – or about 60,000 farms – receive roughly 40 percent of all farm subsidies.
House Committee’s Farm Bill Would Make It Easier for Millionaires to Get Subsidies
The majority of federal farm subsidies already go to the wealthiest farmers: The top 10 percent of recipients received 77 percent of subsidies between 1995 and 2016. But a provision in the House...
House Bill Would Expand Farm Subsidy Loopholes for City Slickers
Strict Work Requirements to Get Food Stamps, But Not Farm Subsidies
Proposals to tighten work requirements for low-income Americans who receive food stamps are halting progress on a new farm bill – meanwhile, work requirements for farm subsidies are almost nonexistent...
New USDA Subsidy Program Will Send Hundreds of Millions of Dollars to Cotton Farmers
A new federal farm subsidy program for cotton growers could cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.
Have Farmers Been Forgotten by Washington?
Standing before some of the nation's most heavily subsidized farmers, President Trump said that America's farmers would be “forgotten no more.” Have the largest, most successful farmers been forgotten...
Do Cotton Farmers Need More Subsidies?
Once again, Congress is attempting to provide more subsidies to cotton farmers – this time in a bill designed to provide disaster relief to Florida, Texas and Puerto Rico.
Did Rep. Doug LaMalfa Receive Crop Insurance Subsidies?
Did Rep. Doug LaMalfa recieve crop insurance subsidies? We would love to know. So would American taxpayers.
Federal Lawmakers Harvest $15 Million in Farm Subsidies
USDA Confirms Subsidies Overwhelmingly Flow to Wealthiest Farmers
A new report from the Department of Agriculture confirmed what EWG has been saying for years: Farm subsidies overwhelmingly go to the largest and most successful farm businesses, instead of to...