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Not everybody loves ethanol
Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty raised some eyebrows earlier this week when he called for a possible end to U.S. Dept. of Agriculture ethanol subsidies. “You can’t do that!” pundits...
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Food stamp use continues to climb
Sara Murray of the Wall Street Journal reports that nearly 44.6 million Americans received food stamps in March — or roughly fifteen percent of the entire U.S. population. So even with other indicators...
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It’s suddenly okay to criticize ethanol subsidies
So reports Eartha Jane Melzer of the Michigan Messenger: There is bipartisan support in Congress to cut down on ethanol subsidies. Some Republican candidates for president, including erstwhile...
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Scott Walker turned down on privatization
The Wisconsin state legislature did away with two major attempts by Gov. Scott Walker to privatize local administration of federally-funded social services. Jessica Vanegreen of the Madison Capital...
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Wisconsin v. Walker
The big news from Wisconsin yesterday was that the state supreme court upheld the law taking away most collective bargaining rights for state public employees who are neither police nor fire fighters....
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An apple a day . . . or not
Almost every day I put an apple in my son’s lunch because it’s one of the few fruits he eats. While I worry about his limited palate, I’ve always thought, “well, at least he’s eating an apple a day,”...
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There’s no such thing as a free school lunch
Schools in Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee will participate in a U.S. Dept. of Agriculture pilot program to provide free meals for all students at any school where at least 40 percent of the students...
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The food stamp backlash
Reading James Bovard’s screed on food stamps as a “magnet for abuses and absurdities” in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, I immediately thought, “Wow, he’s targeting food stamps the way conservatives...
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As corn demand goes up, subsidies go down
The Wall Street Journal’s Scott Kilman visits Shelbyville, Illinois and reports that in “this typical Midwestern town” crop prices are now high enough that they no longer trigger billions of dollars in...
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Natural foods co-op gets a raw deal
Acting in concert with federal officials, authorities in Los Angeles raided a local natural foods buyers co-op and arrested three people for distributing raw milk and dairy products, reports Ian Lovett...
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