The annual farm bill is currently before the House. According to Ron Nixon, a reporter for the New York Times, one of the issues is fraud in the farm programs. (See “Fraud Used to Frame Farm Bill Debate,” June 18.)
The rate of food stamp fraud has been declining and now accounts for about one percent of the $760 billion program. While that is still quite a bit of money, the rate for fraud in the crop insurance program, which is much more concentrated on a few agribusinesses, is close to five percent.
Guess which program the Republicans are concerned about?
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