Secret Subsidies: Payments to farms allowed to stretch far beyond rural America
Secret Subsidies: Payments to farms allowed to stretch far beyond rural America
The federal government gives out subsidies to help farms through tough times, but much of the information about these taxpayer-funded payments is kept secret.
By Emily Featherston, Lee Zurik, Jackson Hicks and Jamie Grey, InvestigateTV May 18, 2021
https://investigatemidwest.org/2021/05/18/secret-subsidies-payments-to-farms-allowed-to-stretch-far-beyond-rural-america/
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Billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars are directed each year to the country’s farms to help keep agriculture afloat when times get tough.
But the federal government is sending millions of these subsidy dollars in the names of people who live and work hundreds of miles from the farms that get the money. Though they are supposed to be actively engaged in the farm’s work, it is unclear how or if they actually are.
Through U.S. Department of Agriculture data, InvestigateTV found several people who netted farms hundreds of thousands of dollars each, despite having jobs outside of farming: over three years almost $340,000 for an NFL luxury suite coordinator and more than $400,000 for a senior interior designer.
Once reporters started asking for additional public documents, the USDA stopped providing the records.
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