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EWG keeps you up to date with analysis of the latest news, interviews with experts and more.

New USDA Records Show Trade Bailout and Coronavirus Payments Went to the Largest Farms

Tuesday, September 22, 2020

The largest and wealthiest U.S. farm businesses received the biggest share of almost $33 billion in payments from two subsidy programs – one created by the Trump administration to respond to the president’s trade war and the other by Congress in response to the coronavirus pandemic, according to updates to EWG’s Farm Subsidy Database.

Farm Bailout Payments Could Ignite New Front in Trade War

Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Bailout payments aimed at relief for farmers from the impacts of President Trump’s trade war and the COVID-19 pandemic likely pushed 2019 federal farm spending beyond subsidy caps set by an international trade agreement, potentially inviting retaliation from trading partners.

USDA Pandemic Bailout Funds Will Go to Largest, Wealthiest Farms

Thursday, May 21, 2020

This week the Department of Agriculture unveiled a pandemic relief initiative that will give farmers $16 billion in direct payments. Just like the Market Facilitation Program, or MFP, which gave $23 billion in subsidies to farmers in response to President Trump’s trade war, most of the money won’t go to small family farmers but to the largest and wealthiest farms, which need the money the least.

COVID-19 Farm Bailout Funds Should Help Farmworkers, Not Big Farmers

Friday, May 1, 2020

Congress should direct the Department of Agriculture to use COVID-19 relief funds to ensure that farmworkers –not big farmers – have protections, free testing and paid sick leave.

Trump Cuts Food Stamps for Hungry Americans, But Handouts to Rich Farmers Keep Coming

Thursday, December 12, 2019

Just in time for Christmas, the Trump administration has finalized a rule to kick 700,000 hungry Americans off the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, commonly called food stamps – the first phase of a broader plan to deny nutrition support to 3 million low-income people.

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