FARM SUBSIDIES

POLITICS
Crop Insurance Reform in Budget
By John Boyd, Contributor
Founder & President National Black Farmers Association
I strongly support crop insurance reform. I would like to see Congress dig deeper and design a more equitable and transparent farm safety net.
POLITICS
Bush and Walker's Iowa Teams Harvest Millions in Farm Subsidies
By Don Carr, Contributor
The Republic of Awesome
By larding up their Iowa teams with the historically subsidized and by endorsing crop insurance, Bush and Walker are trying to split the difference between looking conservative while appealing to Iowa primary voters.
ENVIRONMENT
Sweet Cornageddon
By Don Carr, Contributor
The Republic of Awesome
The modern farm lobby has many similarities with the Republican Party like denying climate change and calling for the repeal of Obamacare in policy books. Until today...
POLITICS
Non-Republicans Welcome (But Not Really) At 'Bipartisan' Iowa Event For 2016 Hopefuls
By Samantha Lachman
Eric Woolsen, a spokesman for the summit, insisted that no background research was done to determine the political affiliations
POLITICS
Tom Cotton Makes Ridiculous Farm Bill Ad
By Arthur Delaney
Cotton currently holds a slight advantage over incumbent Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) according to HuffPost Pollster. WASHINGTON
POLITICS
Louisiana GOP Candidate Makes A Promise He'd Probably Regret
By Alex Lazar
This story has been updated to include state Rep. Paul Hollis and to clarify the election process for the seat. His contract
POLITICS
The Hungry Child
By Marian Wright Edelman, Contributor
President, Children's Defense Fund
Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children. Federal nutrition programs continue to be a critical support to ensure children's daily nutritional needs are met: they put food on children's plates, help build healthy minds and bodies, and help lift families out of poverty.
POLITICS
Our Taxpayer Dollars: Going to Waste and Wealthy Corporations
By Jaimie Woo, Contributor
Tax and Budget Associate, U.S. PIRG
Let's help our budget crises by continuing billion-dollar handouts to huge, profitable agribusinesses. Apparently, that's what Congress thinks.
POLITICS
Ten Examples of Welfare for the Rich and Corporations
By Bill Quigley, Contributor
Law Professor, Loyola University New Orleans
Here are the top 10 examples of corporate welfare and welfare for the rich. There are actually thousands of tax breaks and subsidies for the rich and corporations provided by federal, state and local governments, but these 10 will give a taste.
BUSINESS
It's Time to Reform Farm Support
By OECD, Contributor
Better Policies for Better Lives
Global food demand is rising so fast that farmers are beginning to have trouble keeping up. Projected world population growth, coupled with the new eating habits of a rising middle class, are likely to continue putting pressure on prices and boosting farm income levels for years to come.
ENVIRONMENT
Flunking Food and Hunger in Congress
By Alex Formuzis, Contributor
Sr VP for Communications & Strategic Campaigns
The votes they cast and bills they pass have a profound bearing on the lives of millions of people, including the one-sixth of the population who regularly find themselves hungry. Here are the Zeros of the first session of the 113th Congress.
POLITICS
A New Deal for Christmas
By Leo W. Gerard, Contributor
International President, United Steelworkers
As the GOP abruptly ends unemployment benefits, Republicans intend to slash food aid as well. They want to cut $4 billion a year from the food stamp program that many jobless families depend on for meals. This will occur as struggling food pantries report bare shelves.
POLITICS
Preventable Hunger in Our Land of Plenty
By Marian Wright Edelman, Contributor
President, Children's Defense Fund
While many American families gather around the Thanksgiving table this week, some of us combining this year's traditional dinners with Hanukkah feasts, the nearly 49 million Americans living in food insecure households will be struggling to afford the food they need.
RELIGION
Progressive Christians? A Response to "The Gospel of Selfishness in American Christianity"
By Martha St. Jean, Contributor
A New York City Speaker & Educator
Those who abuse the Gospel and distort the truth may be publicly called out on the incongruence of their lives. For those of us who strive to walk in the steps of Christ -- please don't call us progressive; call us simply "Christians."
FOOD
Will Feds Bankrupt Small Farms With Food Safety Rules?
By Jim Slama, Contributor
President, FamilyFarmed.org
To grow the supply, we need federal policies and programs that support, not hinder, existing and new farmers in their efforts to grow more fruits and vegetables for local markets.
BUSINESS
Billionaires Received Millions From Taxpayer Farm Subsidies: Analysis
By Jillian Berman
Unlike the direct subsidies, which have a cap of $40,000 per farm, companies are allowed to receive unlimited crop insurance
PARENTING
The Mom Wars Conspiracy
By Toni Nagy, Contributor
writer, podcaster, tonibologna.com, overshareshow.com
We can point fingers and argue over the biological realities and psychological influences, but that is missing the point. Moms and dads feel inadequate, as it were only their fault that they can't be two in places at one time, when in reality, they are dealing with a systemic problem.
WORLDPOST
It's Time to Reform Farm Support
By Ken Ash, Contributor
OECD Director, Trade and Agriculture
'Business as usual' is not an option either if the global food and agriculture system is to meet the planet's food, feed and fuel needs amidst competing demands for water, land and biodiversity resources and the uncertain impacts of climate change.
POLITICS
Let Them Eat $4.39
By Martha Burk, Ph.D., Contributor
Gender pay equity expert, Money Editor, Ms. Magazine, fmr Chai...
Here's a challenge for each member of the U.S. House who favors fat-cat farmers and corporations over food for the poor. Instead of a huge campaign contribution, ask big ag write you a check $134. Feed yourself on that -- and only that -- for the next month.
ENVIRONMENT
The Chicken Industry Loves Federal Handouts
By Paul Shapiro, Contributor
Author, Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revo...
Why would the government do this? In their announcement, the feds were pretty clear: "for surplus removal." In other words, since the poultry meat industry produced more chickens than it could sell, the government will step in and provide a cushy taxpayer bailout.
POLITICS
The Pesky Poor
By Christopher Brauchli, Contributor
Retired lawyer and columnist for Huffington Post and other we...
One of the questions the curious voter from time to time wonders is how a person can distinguish good government handouts from bad government handouts. The answer to that question is not as obvious as it would seem to be to the uninitiated.
POST 50
Calling All Baby Boomers
By Susan Rhea, Contributor
Scientist and citizen activist
They didn't stop that war and invent new religion just to end up watching "The Simpsons," reading "Doonesbury" and blogging on Facebook. Is that what the boomer generation is going to be remembered for? Just a single burst of youthful idealism, then a quick fade to the back?
POLITICS
George Miller Criticizes House Republicans Over Farm Subsidies
By Ashley Alman
On July 11, the House of Representatives passed a farm bill that includes agriculture subsidies but not food stamps, splitting
POLITICS
What the Farm Bill Really Means
By Sean McElwee, Guest Writer
Guest Writer
What's the problem with the farm lobby? Don't farmers need representation too? Don't farm subsidies help keep the food market stable? Yes and yes. But, American farm policy may be one of the most incoherently developed and rigidly path dependent.
WELLNESS
Agriculture Subsidies Promote Obesity, Charges New Study
By Aaron Sankin
"Had these subsidies gone directly to America's 146 million taxpayers," the report notes, "the apple subsidies would enable
DENVER
Colorado Farmers, Interest Groups Groan As Congress Fiddles With Farm Bill
By The Colorado Independent, The Colorado Independent
Michael Bowman, a politically-active farmer from Gardner’s District 4, is adamant that the farm bill without SNAP would be
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