{"id":2015,"date":"2005-12-14T08:04:30","date_gmt":"2005-12-14T08:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2015"},"modified":"2005-12-14T08:04:30","modified_gmt":"2005-12-14T08:04:30","slug":"ag_subsidies_re","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2015","title":{"rendered":"Ag Subsidies Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danieldrezner.com\/archives\/002464.html\">Daniel Drezner<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><\/p>\n<p>For now, however, these subsidies are here &#8212; but who, exactly, gets them?  <\/p>\n<p>For that answer, I encourage you to check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ewg.org\/farm\/\">Environmental Working Group&#8217;s Farm Subsidy Database<\/a>.  Through many, many FOIA requests, they have produced.  an interactive website chock full of interesting facts.  For example:  <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<li> Half of all subsidies go to only 5% of Congressional districts.<\/p>\n<li> Four commodities &#151;corn, wheat, rice and cotton&#151; account for 78 percent of all ag subsidies. <\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ewg.org\/farm\/redraw\/\">EWG also has an interesting proposal to reallocate the ag money away from subsidies<\/a> but towards rural areas where farmers actually generate high value-added goods already.  <\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Drezner: For now, however, these subsidies are here &#8212; but who, exactly, gets them? For that answer, I encourage you to check out the Environmental Working Group&#8217;s Farm Subsidy Database. Through many, many FOIA requests, they have produced. an interactive website chock full of interesting facts. For example: Half of all subsidies go to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}