Farm Bill

The changes are intended to encourage more SNAP recipients to enter the work force—but research shows that's not a problem in the first place.

• By Rebecca Worby

An anti-SNAP campaign in Washington, D.C., and proposed legislation to reduce the social safety net are both feeding off well-worn myths around welfare recipients.

• By Maggie You Ming Tsai

If the farm bill isn't renewed, the U.S. government will wind up paying farmers a pretty penny. But renewing the bill conflicts with President Trump's executive order for agency deregulation. What's Congress to do?

• By Rita Florez

A Brookings report takes the "mend it, don't end it" approach to the embattled SNAP program.

• By Marc Herman

Steve King's Protect Interstate Commerce Act would undo decades of costly animal welfare improvements across the country.

• By James McWilliams

A new working paper by two Duke economic policy researchers takes a close look at what influences lawmakers’ farm policy votes.

• By Michael Fitzgerald