Government interference in the sugar market hurts consumers and food manufacturers by driving up the price of sugar, threatening competitive farmers and ranchers by jeopardizing export growth, and weakening the U.S. economy by diverting resources from more competitive uses. This Depression-era program, which was supposed to end in 1940, has…
Revised and Updated on January 12, 2012 Download a PDF version with hyperlinks to House and Senate Appropriations Committee documents: Appropriations Tracker: FY 2012 Designed to inform American policymakers and citizens, the…
Executive Summary Today, the Census Bureau released its annual poverty report, which declared that a record 46.2 million persons, or roughly one in seven Americans, were poor in 2010. The numbers were up sharply from the previous year’s total of…
A new report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture states that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP,...…
Food-stamp fraud and the government’s failed attempts to stop it were the focus of a House Oversight and Government...…
Last week, The Heritage Foundation reported on a 15-cent fee the Obama Administration's Department of Agriculture...…
Yesterday, after word got out (via a post here on the Foundry) regarding new “mandatory fees” on Christmas trees imposed...…
Christmas is more than a month away, but the Obama Administration just couldn't wait to hang a shiny new ornament on...…
President Obama's Agriculture Department today announced that it will impose a new 15-cent charge on all fresh...…
First they came for the donuts, and few dared to defend partially hydrogenated vegetable oil. Then they came for the...…
As Congress and the White House continue to quarrel over the debt ceiling, the folks at the U.S. Department of...…
There is nothing wrong with fighting childhood obesity but fighting it at the federal level with ineffective methods...…
Congress is back, but before Members head home again to campaign, they have to first do what they do best: spend other...…