New Analysis Shows Farm Payments Concentrated in Midwest
2nd Nov 2005, 01:56 GMT
WASHINGTON - Half of government farm payments over the past decade have gone to just 22 of the 435 congressional districts, according to an analysis by the Environmental Working Group. The group wants the federal government to cut payments to large farm operations and revise provisions that allow some to collect millions of dollars a year in subsidies. The Senate could vote on the issue this week. "The whole system is tilted to a handful of big farm operations, and everybody else comes up short," said Ken Cook, the group's president. "We were surprised at the degree to which payments are concentrated in those several dozen congressional districts.
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