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HAB911's JournalFarmers decry Trump plans to cut agriculture subsides
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Farm groups and some members of Congress from farm states are decrying proposed cuts to crop insurance and other safety net programs for farmers included in President Donald Trump’s budget.
The proposed cuts come even as farmers are facing their fourth straight year of falling income, and could particularly affect farm states such as Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska that helped Trump win the November election.
“Clearly, this budget fails agriculture and rural America,” American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall said in a statement.
The proposed budget would cap the amount of money the U.S. government provides to help farmers pay insurance premiums and eliminate insurance coverage for lost revenue when crop prices and per-acre yields fall. That would reduce the federal insurance program’s budget by $28 billion over 10 years.
https://www.apnews.com/5505a0552571464b97b6ad57742d8dc8?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP_Politics
empathy, no sympathy
The Silencing of the Hillary Clinton Supporter
The media’s obsession with the white populist narrative serves two purposes: telling women who supported Hillary they don’t matter and exonerating itself from being culpable in her loss.
Last Friday, Hillary Clinton delivered the commencement speech at her alma mater, Wellesley, to a rapt audience of young women, just as Rebecca Traister’s New York magazine cover story went live online, vaulting the former presidential candidate back into the news. And with Clinton’s interview at Recode’s Code2017 yesterday where she addressed the myriad reasons for her loss, so came the return of trolls and the tiresome exegesis that demands a single “truth”: that Clinton lost because she and her campaign failed to connect with the white working class. Misogyny, James Comey, the Russians be damned.
https://www.damemagazine.com/2017/06/01/silencing-hillary-clinton-supporter
The Secret Evangelicals at Planned Parenthood
They may demonize the health clinic in public, but throngs of young Christian women are patronizing it in private for birth control, preventative care, and, yes, even abortions.
http://www.marieclaire.com/politics/a27333/secret-evangelical-christians-at-planned-parenthood/
SAGANS COSMOS IS NOW AN AUDIOBOOK
READ BY LEVAR BURTON, NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON, AND SETH MACFARLANE
http://nerdist.com/carl-sagan-cosmos-audiobook-neil-degrasse-tyson-levar-burton/
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