Senate panel passes $500 billion farm bill, By Christopher Doering, May 14, 2013, USA Today: “The Senate Agriculture Committee passed a sweeping new five-year, half-trillion dollar farm bill on Tuesday as lawmakers made another attempt to craft a new agriculture policy after falling short in 2012. The legislation, which included many of the same programs and reforms that were in the farm bills that failed in Congress last year, would slash subsidy payments, expand crop insurance and carry out deep cuts to the country’s popular food stamp program…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty