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href="http://action.ewg.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=vQgfQjf7OViPqAx2%2BrAV7G0HS0lYL6NQ">analysis</A>
released today by EWG found that residents of America’s 54
largest cities collected more than $24 million in Direct
Payment farm subsidies in 2012.</P>
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total of 18,276 city dwellers cashed in on the US Department
of Agriculture’s Direct Payment program, which was created in
1996 to wean farmers off subsidies but instead was continued
in the 2002 and 2008 farm bills, EWG’s study shows.</P>
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must decide this month whether to extend the Direct Payment
program, which cost taxpayers nearly $5 billion a year. Both
the House and Senate versions of the proposed new farm bill
would end these payments, but it looks more likely that
Congress will vote to extend the current farm bill once
again.</P>
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the full report <A
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href="http://action.ewg.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=Xkz8FsEoj9wPtJSoOFrFvm0HS0lYL6NQ">here</A>.</P>
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Scraps:</STRONG></P>
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href="http://action.ewg.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=M2gAImErUIqw9tKM5PTM9aQhJHf5f%2BRa">New
York Times</A> has more on the City Slickers report and farm
bill state of play.</P>
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News released the <A
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href="http://action.ewg.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=drKmZemFM9rb%2FrzspvSq9KQhJHf5f%2BRa">second
article</A> of its <A
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href="http://action.ewg.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=E9UecSH2dMbnefr88Oa2Fm0HS0lYL6NQ">special
series on the federal crop insurance program</A>.</P>
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of the Day:</STRONG></P>
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href="http://action.ewg.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=XeG34Gksl4zU0F7%2BV5Rxnm0HS0lYL6NQ">@worthprotecting</A> <A
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href="http://action.ewg.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=6UvtJqO9IB47MBBU8ZPiHm0HS0lYL6NQ">@JeffFlake</A>
and <A
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href="http://action.ewg.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=B1Qs6L94libS5OWEY6lwqKQhJHf5f%2BRa">@faberfamilyfarm</A>
at press conf today discussing EWG report City Slickers<A
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href="http://action.ewg.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=ofQWx%2BSwCGqW9oDghInVqG0HS0lYL6NQ">http://www.ewg.org/agmag/2013/09/city-slickers-harvest-cash-crop</A>
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