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(USA/Pandemic/Economics) Claims about farm bankruptcies do not justify increasing aid for farms (AEI)

Vincent H. SmithEric J. Belasco

Throughout the pandemic, amidst stimulus package debates and worries about crushing federal deficits, farming interests have persistently, and on occasion aggressively, lobbied Washington for additional subsidies to bail out failing farms.

Claims about farm bankruptcies do not justify increasing aid for farms