U.S. Farm and Food Subsidies
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From its founding, the U.S. government has promoted agriculture, and since the Great Depression, has directly supported farm incomes and crop prices. Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal programs linked farm subsidies to food assistance for the poor, a politically successful combination then and now. Sarah Ludington describes how the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), through the Farm Bill, became responsible for school lunches, food stamps, and land conservation in addition to billions of dollars in subsidies for commodity crops like corn and cotton. Now a target for both the right wing and left wing of American politics, the Farm Bill continues to embody the tensions at the heart of American agriculture.
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1993 ◽
Vol 75
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pp. 1263-1271
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Images of A.F. Kerensky and the Political Struggle in 1917 (based on the newspapers of A.A. Suvorin)
2020 ◽
Vol 4
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pp. 834-883
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1995 ◽
Vol 78
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pp. 293-299
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2019 ◽
pp. 388-434
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