Claire Kelloway
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Claire Kelloway
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Writing about food and ag for the Open Markets Institute / Food & Power. Foodandpower.net
Thanks to @marketplace.org for covering this big change to the Farm Bill!
September 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Further, just as the OBBB added work requirements for SNAP recipients, it eased requirements that farmers prove they're actively engaged in farming in order to receive federal farm subsidies and made it easier for larger farms to receive more subsidies www.foodandpower.net/latest/obbb-...
Budget Bill Expands Subsidies for Largest Farms, Cuts SNAP — Food & Power
As Republicans added work requirements for SNAP, they also made it easier for non-active farm owners to collect more federal subsidies.
www.foodandpower.net
September 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
This has massive implications for feeding low-income families and for hundreds of smaller sustainable ag programs that the OBBB left behind. @nsac-sustainableag.bsky.social sustainableagriculture.net/blog/release...
Release: Budget Bill Steamrolls Farm Bill Future, Slashing Billions
The House Agriculture Committee’s new budget reconciliation bill proposes over $290 billion in cuts—primarily from nutrition and conservation programs—while increasing commodity subsidies and sidelini...
sustainableagriculture.net
September 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Excited to collaborate for the first time with Successful Farming, thanks to @thefern.org !
September 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Extremely grateful for the editors at FERN who made this opportunity possible! (photo credit to James Beard Foundation/Galdones Photography)
June 20, 2025 at 9:10 PM
@consumerreports.org exposed how Kroger creates (at times inaccurate) shopper profiles to offer discriminatory discounts. “The way this data is being used is very clearly widening the gap between upper, middle, and low-income households" -@profdaf.bsky.social www.consumerreports.org/money/questi...
Inside Kroger's Secret Shopper Profiles: Why You May Be Paying More Than Your Neighbors - Consumer Reports
Kroger has secret shopper profiles on millions of its grocery customers. They may be affecting what consumers pay for goods.
www.consumerreports.org
May 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM