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Congress

New report by House Republicans could preview changes to federal food stamp program

By Johnathan Hettinger/Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting | December 7, 2016

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R — Wisc.) has made his intentions to reform entitlement programs clear, and this report shows several ways that could happen in the SNAP program.

Database: Tracking Covid-19’s impact on meatpacking workers and industry

USDA photo by Preston Keres

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) meat inspectors and graders perform their mission.

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  • Apply now for the USA TODAY Network Agriculture Data Fellowship

    We are seeking applicants for the USA TODAY Network Agriculture Data Fellowship at the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting in Champaign, Ill. Deadline to apply is Nov.

Opinion

  • Opinion: OSHA and Big Meat should be investigated over COVID-19 response

    Last month our worst fears were confirmed after the Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued a pair of COVID-19 safety violation related fines against Big-Meat giants China WH-group owned Smithfield Foods and Brazilian-owned JBS. Mismanagement at Smithfield’s meat packing plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota resulted in almost 13-hundred COVID-19 positive tests. Four plant workers died. JBS is equally culpable. At the JBS USA plant in Greeley, Colorado 290 workers tested positive for COVID-19. Six have died.

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  • Opinion: OSHA and Big Meat should be investigated over COVID-19 response

    Last month our worst fears were confirmed after the Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued a pair of COVID-19 safety violation related fines against Big Meat giants China WH-group owned Smithfield Foods and Brazilian-owned JBS.  Mismanagement at Smithfield’s meatpacking plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota resulted in almost 1,300 COVID-19 positive tests.

  • After #MeToo, This Group Has Nearly Erased Sexual Harassment in Farm Fields

    This story was originally published by Civil Eats.

  • Homegrown relief: Farming communities tackle rise in suicides

    This story was originally published by the Christian Science Monitor LIME RIDGE, WIS.

Rural America

  • Minnesota has figured out a way to help stressed farmers. Can it be replicated?

    This story is part of a yearlong project exploring the ways farmers and farming communities tackle mental health and is supported with a grant from the Solutions Journalism Network. When Pam Uhlenkamp separated from her husband earlier this year, she knew the person to call.  As a farm business management instructor, Uhlenkamp mentors farmers one-on-one.

From the USDA

  • Trump Administration Invests $72 Million in Distance Learning and Telemedicine Infrastructure in 40 States, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands

    Distance Learning and Telemedicine Investments will Benefit More Than 12 Million Rural Residents WASHINGTON, Oct. 7, 2020 - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $72 million in grants to help rural residents gain access to health care and educational opportunities.

SEEDS OF DESPAIR: Isolated, and with limited access to mental-health care, hundreds are dying by suicide.

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