More $$$ to rich farmers, less food for the poor | Jay Bookman | www.ajc.com
Between 2008 and 2012, the federal government paid $22 million in crop-insurance payments to some 3,400 farmers who had been dead for at least two years, according to an investigation by the federal government’s watchdog, the Government Accountability Office. Under another program, the Agriculture Department paid out $10.6 million in …