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Search results for "Farm Aid" ...
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"Tax Dollars to Dead Farmers"
Some farmers who have died during the last 20 years are still being paid. By comparing the "Farm Bill database" and the "Social Security Death Index," WFOR-TV found 234 deceased farmers in South Florida continue to receive taxpayer money through the U.S. Farm Bill. The amount still being paid is estimated to be $9.5 million.
Tags: Farm Aid; U.S. Farm Bill; U.S. Department of Agriculture; Environmental Working Group; General Accountability Office; Richard Wiles
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Fertile for Fraud
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that "Farmers routinely collect federal insurance and disaster payments on crops prone to fail. In the process, taxpayers are stuck with a steep price tag for fraud and abuse - well over $100 million a year...(as result of) the failures of the federal government's system for managing agricultural risk; the system is easily corrupted and covers marginal farms, where crops fail year after year. Congress' decade-long expansion of the system has opened a Pandora's box of federal crop payments that defy common sense, waste hundreds of millions of taxpayers' dollars and subvert the honest living for which farmers are admired..."
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No title (id: 5331)
WTDY Radio (Madison, Wis.) reports on a charity established by professional sports figure intended to aid family farmers; finds charity provided almost no aid to farmers and worked with a firm that was under investigation, May - July 1987. This file includes contest entry and reporter information only.
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No title (id: 2489)
Gannett News Service reprint finds Farmers Home Administration, chartered to aid small farmers, lending millions to the rich and politically well-connected; as a result, whole regional farm economies are nearing bankruptcy, December 1983.
Tags: Rohner Camire FmHA