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Trump is already forgetting America’s farmers

After boasting on the campaign trail about his commitment to family farmers and to supporting America’s rural communities, President-elect Donald Trump has — with less than a week to go until his...

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The Trump administration just proposed major changes for the Department of...

On Thursday, Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue announced that, for the first time since 1994, the USDA — which employs more than 100,000 federal workers across the country — would be...

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The Disappearing Data Project

Since President Donald Trump took office in January, thousands of government records that were previously public have gone offline—from a massive database of records on animal welfare at the Department...

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The global economy is slowing down, with help from the shutdown and Trump’s...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has issued a dire forecast for global economic growth, pointing to declining momentum in the midst of trade tensions between the United States and China, along...

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Trump administration’s proposed cuts to SNAP benefits will ‘take food off of...

On Friday, the Trump administration officially released a proposed rule that would put 755,000 Americans’ food assistance in jeopardy over three years, according to its own analysis. The rule focuses...

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Trump’s record on poverty policies doesn’t back up his self-professed concern...

President Donald Trump is said to be very concerned about the “rat and rodent infested” city of Baltimore, a place “no human being would want to live.” Yet he failed to mention, in his string of tweets...

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Trump moves to allow logging in the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest

As Brazil’s Amazon burns, President Donald Trump is taking aim at one of the largest expanses of temperate rainforest in Alaska. On Tuesday, the president instructed Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue...

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