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Sweet Talk
Florida Trend reports on the United States sugar industry. The price support system adds $1.4 billion to consumers' annual grocery bills, according to GAO reports. Questions have been raised by opponents of the price supports, and they have asked the sugar farmers to open their books and prove they need the supports like other subsidized industries do.
Tags: sugar companies; price supports; subsidies; United States Department of Agriculture
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ABC PrimeTime Live reports on young, poverty-stricken Haitian boys being lured into the Dominican sugar cane fields by recruiters who promise them high paying jobs in Santo Domingo; connects U.S. sugar company, Amstar Sugar, to the sugar plantation's slave labor, May 30, 1991.
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