Tag: subsidies
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#MorningMonarchy: January 29, 2018
Prosecuting protest, gun trace task force and full-throated warmongers + this day in history w/the “I Don’t Like Mondays” shooting and our song of the day by The Vaccines on your Morning Monarchy for January 29, 2018.
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Catfish Oversight, Weather Radios and Christmas Tree Tax: Meet the Pork-Filled $956B Farm Bill
Farm Bill Cuts $8 Billion in Food Stamps, Preserves Handouts to Koch Industries* from dailymail.co.uk: The federal government pays for a $15 million ‘wool trust fund,’ runs a $170 million […]
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In Congress’s Farm Bill, The Rich Get Richer
from washingtonpost.com: Congress has sent a $956 billion farm bill larded with subsidies for agribusiness to President Obama, who issued a statement Tuesday praising it. Maybe he should first have […]
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Farm Bill Ends Subsidies, Cuts Food Stamps
from money.cnn.com: A group of bipartisan lawmakers on Monday agreed to a deal on a farm bill that would end direct subsidies to farms in favor of crop insurance. The […]
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Japan Dismantles Rice Subsidies
from theland.com.au: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government has approved a plan to end a four-decade long policy that has helped to sustain the nation’s 1.2 million rice farms. The […]
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Taxpayers Have Spent $15 Trillion on ‘War on Poverty’
from breitbart.com: Since President Lyndon Baines Johnson declared “war on poverty,” U.S. taxpayers have spent $15 trillion on so-called anti-poverty programs—a figure slightly less than the national debt. In 1969, […]
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Food Stamps Surge By Most In One Year To New All Time Record
from zerohedge.com: While there had been speculation that the BLS may delay the release of its October nonfarm payroll number until after the election, it turned out there was no […]
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Twinkies vs. Carrots
Food policy influences dietary choices. Why is it cheaper to buy a Twinkie than to buy a carrot? How do food subsidies and agricultural policies affect the foods we eat? How is that tied to food-related diseases? Journalist Michael Pollan explains.
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Food Stamp Rolls Increase 70% from 2007, Projected to Keep Increasing Until 2014
from cryptogon.com: The Congressional Budget Office said Thursday that 45 million people in 2011 received Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, a 70% increase from 2007. It said the number of […]
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AG Subsidies Fund Junk Food, Report Says
from food safety news: Each year when Americans pay their taxes, part of that money feeds into subsidies for junk food ingredients; and hardly any of it goes toward fresh […]
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bad food? tax it, and subsidize vegetables
from nytimes: What will it take to get Americans to change our eating habits? The need is indisputable, since heart disease, diabetes and cancer are all in large part caused […]