U.S. taxpayers in fiscal year 2012 spent about $14 billion protecting farmers against crop losses....
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A Dust Bowl-era program intended to save the nation's farmers from ruin has grown into a 21st-century crutch for affluent growers and financial institutions that is expected to cost U.S. taxpayers almost $90 billion over the next ten years. This report examines how the program works, outlines the way private insurance companies benefit from public assistance, reveals the ways fraudsters in North Carolina stole $100 million through false claims, and shows the potentially harmful impact the system has on the environment.
A Dust Bowl-era program intended to save the nation's farmers from ruin has grown into a 21st-century crutch for affluent growers and financial institutions that is expected to cost U.S. taxpayers almost $90 billion over the next ten years. This report examines how the program works, outlines the way private insurance companies benefit from public assistance, reveals the ways fraudsters in North Carolina stole $100 million through false claims, and shows the potentially harmful impact the system has on the environment.
Fraud Stealing $100 Million Shows Flaws in U.S. Crop Insurance
Crop Insurance: Anatomy of a Fraud
Crop Insurers’ $14 Billion Some See as Money Laundering
Crop Insurance: Covering Companies’ Costs
Taxpayers Turn U.S. Farmers Into Fat Cats With Subsidies
Crop Insurance: How the Taxpayer Loses
Farmers and Insurers Reap Crop Insurance Bucks
Crop Insurance Critics Make Push to Curb U.S. Subsidies
$100M Scam to Defraud Federal Crop Insurance System
Cash for Doomed Crops Means U.S. Farmers Avoid Disaster Cost
Farm law Rejection Another Embarrassment for Boehner
Sushi Aid in $1 Trillion U.S. Agriculture Bill Irks Watchdogs
U.S. Crop-Insurance Rates Set Above Average for Corn, Soy, Wheat
U.S. Farm Income Seen Rising as Drought Spurs Higher Prices
Doomed Crops, Record Profits
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