Posts Tagged ‘ food assistance programs ’

Farm Bill Needs A Signature

May 19th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Opinion

The farm bill provides far more money for hungry people than it does for farmers. Nearly 80 percent of the cost of the farm bill is for food programs, including $10.2 billion for domestic food assistance programs and $7.8 billion for food stamps. There’s also $1 billion for a program to provide healthy snacks of [...]