December 2, 2019 Trump Cuts Food Stamps for Hungry Americans, But Handouts to Rich Land Barons Keep Coming Previously at EWG. Just in time for Christmas, the Trump administration has finalized a rule to kick 700,000 hungry Americans off the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance…
September 11, 2019 Trump Campaign Advisors Receive Over $2 Million in Trade Bailout Payments Previously at EWG. Fifteen members of an agribusiness council that advised Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign have received $2.2 million from the federal bailout…
July 30, 2019 USDA Bailout for Impact of Trump’s Tariffs Goes to Biggest, Richest Landowners Previously at EWG with Chris Campbell. Farm bailout payments designed to offset the impacts of President’s Trump’s trade war have overwhelmingly flowed to the…
April 24, 2019 Rural Iowans Feel the Brunt of Unregulated Ag Pollution The major role that rural voters played in recent elections has amped up the focus on farm country from politicians and candidates on both sides of…
May 7, 2018 Steve King Shoots Himself in the Meat Avowed racist Congressman Steve King’s (R-IA) latest move is an amendment to the farm bill aimed at protecting the egg laying industry in his…
January 8, 2018 Trump Embraces the Ag-Right President Trump is set to address the annual American Farm Bureau Federation conference in Nashville, Tenn., this afternoon. On the surface it may seem…
September 20, 2017 Members that Voted Against Harvey Aid Received $650K in Farm Disaster Aid On September 8th Congress voted for relief for Americans impacted by Hurricane Harvey. Several callous members voted no, citing their conservative ideology, even though…
November 18, 2016 Love It Or Leave It? For a country founded on rebellion, secession movements are an unsurprisingly popular American tradition. From the tongue-in-cheek variety of mock revolt practiced by Key…
October 19, 2016 America’s Gonna Need the Jaws of Life After this Train Wreck Election Nearly a quarter century later there are still political kernels of wisdom to be harvested from Bill Clinton’s improbable, history-making 1992 presidential campaign –…
March 7, 2016 Food Party Dispatch: Talking With Wholesome Wave’s Nischan If the “good food” movement is going to unite into a formidable political force for change — something like a national Food Party — then…
