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Almost 28,000 U.S. farmers received taxpayer-funded federal farm subsidies or disaster relief payments for 32 straight years, according to a new EWG analysis of data from the Department of Agriculture...

When the House considers the farm bill this morning, watch out for defenders of unlimited farm subsidies delivering misinformation.

Anyone who has been following the debate over the House farm bill knows lawmakers are closely watching the stricter work requirements proposed for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or...

Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year, including more than 41,000 deaths from secondhand smoke. So why are American taxpayers still subsidizing farmers to grow tobacco...

The farm bill under consideration by the House of Representatives this week may reopen loopholes that once allowed billionaires to receive federal farm subsidies.

Under current law, numerous loopholes in federal farm subsidy programs distribute the lion's share of farm subsidies to the largest and richest farms

Here are six ways the bill snubs President Trump's February budget request.

The farm bill produced by the House Agriculture Committee violates many of the principles developed by U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue.

Every federal farm bill is a chance to feed hungry Americans, build healthier diets, support family farmers and reduce farm pollution

Federal farm subsidies are now likely to cost almost $12.6 billion more than originally anticipated when lawmakers passed the 2014 Farm Bill.

Our farm safety net is already so filled with loopholes that the top 3 percent of farms – or about 60,000 farms – receive roughly 40 percent of all farm subsidies.

The majority of federal farm subsidies already go to the wealthiest farmers: The top 10 percent of recipients received 77 percent of subsidies between 1995 and 2016. But a provision in the House...

The House Agriculture Committee's proposed farm bill would impose new work requirements on recipients of SNAP benefits, commonly known as food stamps, which help alleviate hunger for more than 40...

Proposals to tighten work requirements for low-income Americans who receive food stamps are halting progress on a new farm bill – meanwhile, work requirements for farm subsidies are almost nonexistent...

A new federal farm subsidy program for cotton growers could cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.

Standing before some of the nation's most heavily subsidized farmers, President Trump said that America's farmers would be “forgotten no more.” Have the largest, most successful farmers been forgotten...

Once again, Congress is attempting to provide more subsidies to cotton farmers – this time in a bill designed to provide disaster relief to Florida, Texas and Puerto Rico.

Did Rep. Doug LaMalfa recieve crop insurance subsidies? We would love to know. So would American taxpayers.

Thirty-two members of Congress and their immediate family members collected at least $14.3 million in farm subsidies between 1995 and 2016, according to data from EWG's Farm Subsidy Database.

A new report from the Department of Agriculture confirmed what EWG has been saying for years: Farm subsidies overwhelmingly go to the largest and most successful farm businesses, instead of to...