Alan cites Wall Street Journal piece on SNAP & farm subsidies

Dante Chinni writes Politics Counts every Friday. Mr. Chinni is the director of the American Communities Project at American University, which examines different types of communities across the U.S.

It’s no secret that the current battle over the Farm Bill, which is stalled in Congress, has been a partisan slog. Democratic states and House districts, which hold large urban populations, are fighting to defend food-stamp money against Republican efforts to sharply cut spending. Meanwhile, Democrats and Republicans are also trying to reach a deal on restructuring agricultural subsidies to end direct payments and beef-up crop insurance and other protections instead.

Amid this complex fight, the reality of who benefits is also complicated: Farm subsidies don’t follow the electoral map, and neither do food stamps. That is, it’s not just Republican states and areas that benefit from farm subsidies or just big Democratic states that benefit from food stamps — the money for both items is spread pretty widely across the spectrum.

If you consider the top 10 states for agriculture subsidies for 2012, according to the Environmental Working Group, it’s a mix of Democratic and Republican states…

Read more at: http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/11/29/politics-counts-who-benefits-from-subsidies-food-stamps/?KEYWORDS=dante+chinni

Source: Wall Street Journal: Politics Counts

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