farm bill

Farm Bill’s Fate Hangs in the Balance as Congress Returns

Seth Millstein / Sentient Media Jan 7, 2025 Here’s what to expect as lawmakers try to hash out a new farm bill. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Environment

How Much Carbon Can Farm Soil Store? Nobody Knows

Max Graham / Grist Feb 12, 2024 Advocates say the long-awaited farm bill could help fix that. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Environment

What the 2023 Farm Bill Means for Animals and Farmers

Marlena Williams / Sentient Media Jun 22, 2023 Understanding the Farm Bill, an omnibus piece of legislation that covers everything from crop subsidies to SNAP. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Paul Ryan’s Entire Career Was a Cash Grab for Billionaires

Peter Certo / OtherWords Dec 23, 2018 The outgoing House speaker is a villain, and no one will miss him. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Sugar for Wall Street Daddies, Austerity for the Rest of Us

Teodrose Fikre / Truthdig May 21, 2018 Look at the latest farm bill winding its way through Congress. America has been indentured by multinational corporations. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

GMO Monster

Petar Pismestrovic, Cagle Cartoons, Kleine Zeitung, Austria Feb 14, 2014 Dig deeper

Congress Suffers From Selective Deficit Disorder

David Sirota / Truthdig Feb 8, 2014 The same farm bill that cuts food stamps by $8 billion could increase subsidies to wealthy farmers and agribusinesses by $15 billion. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Agribiz

Signe Wilkinson / Truthdig Feb 6, 2014 Dig deeper

GOP Food Stamp Cuts Help the Rich, Hurt the Poor and Starve the Economy

BLANK Nov 19, 2013 As part of the New York Times series on “The Great Divide,” Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz dives into the pernicious link between campaign money, farm subsidies and starving Americans. It doesn’t speak well of us as a nation, or a political system. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Want Food Stamps? Become a Massive Corporation, Says Stephen Colbert

Staff / Truthdig Jul 18, 2013 "The Colbert Report" host has figured out a solution to how poor Americans needing food stamps can get them back after the program was removed from the GOP-controlled House's recently passed farm bill. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

U.S. Ranks 27th in Health Care

Staff / Truthdig Jul 16, 2013 Despite arguments that privatization makes the American health system the best, 26 other countries' are better; it's no coincidence there are more large earthquakes occurring as drilling has increased; meanwhile, artist Nickolay Lamm shows us what a real, healthy Barbie would look like with his latest work. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

How the GOP Takes ‘Glee in Inflicting Further Suffering’ on the Miserable

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Jul 15, 2013 The latest criticism of the Republican Party launched by New York Times columnist Paul Krugman centers around the "monstrous" farm bill that passed through the GOP-controlled House last week. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )