Millions in farm subsidies flow freely to DC residents who don't actually farm - Patriot Update: "The Department of Agriculture awarded nearly $178 billion in farm subsidies between 1995 and 2012.
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Washington, D.C., doesn’t have many farms, or farmers. Yet thousands of residents in and around the nation’s capital receive millions of dollars every year in federal farm subsidies, including working-class residents in Southeast, wealthy lobbyists on K Street and well-connected lawmakers on Capitol Hill."
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