Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Nearly 1 million Americans, many of whom are rich urban elites, received over $13 billion in farm subsidies in 2017

From the story here about the findings of the organization headed by Tom Coburn:

'Today, our organization, American Transparencyreleased its OpenTheBooks oversight report, “Harvesting U.S. Farm Subsidies.”  The report catalogues $13.2 billion in these subsidies flowing to nearly 958,000 recipients in fiscal year 2017. Using our interactive mapping platform at OpenTheBooks.com, taxpayers can search all recipients receiving $100,000 or more in FY2017 farm subsidies by ZIP Code.'