Lawmakers in Washington, D.C. and 10 states are pushing to restrict the kinds of foods and drinks Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients can purchase. These proposals would have no direct fiscal effect, as total SNAP funding levels would remain unchanged, but they would limit personal choices and individual freedom and expand government control over […]
Congress has a chance to deliver long overdue reforms to the sugar program. The current sugar program was intended to be a short-term solution but has evolved into a permanent government program that wastes taxpayer dollars and raises prices for consumers. The sugar program puts the sugar industry ahead of consumers and reforming or replacing […]
There are some areas of the farm bill, like the sugar program, that are ripe for reform.
The sugar program benefits producers and harms consumers and leads to job losses.
A new California law threatens to limit Californians’ access to pork and drive up prices nationwide.
Steve Koonin’s WSJ OpEd “Climate Change Brings a Flood of Hyperpole” sends a sober message about the Green New Deal
On October 22, 2020, the Senate Budget Committee released a report highlighting overlap and duplication in federal housing programs.
An eye-catching article was in Politico’s February 18 edition, “How the Tobacco Industry Could Join the Coronavirus Fight.”
The USDA’s historic approach to “market-driven blend rates” has been to aggressively pursue unachievable biofuel mandates that put manufacturing jobs at risk.
USMCA heads to President Trump’s desk, after Senate passes the bill 89-10.
