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handle is hein.amenin/aeiaehr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Key Points a Despite claims to the contrary, rArm subsid s do littie to reduce food prices and ai rmost nothing to alleviate rural poverty. Payments of farm subsidies are roughly proportiona to farm output; therefore, those who operate srall farms receive minirnal benefits from such programs. Other US Department of Agriculture policies that proviHe lnw-income households with subsidies to buy food do increase food security and red ce poverty. Modern farm subsidy policy in the United States is albout to enter its ioh decade. Despite cone nuity in the scope, focus, and policy tool kit, indivial programs have been modified, some replaced, and others substantialiv cranded. Periodic faun hill legislation renews and amends programs, many of which now operate under the provisions of the Agricultire Improvement Act of 2018, although crop inmsurance susiNdies, commodity trade barn ers, milk price regulations, and a fev others have other legislatve bases. This report reinforces and updates parts of a detailed Ame i can Enterprise institute report published five years ago. That report documented that, despite inuch rhetoric to the contrat, US farm cmm dity sulsi dy programs an a regulations that increase farum returns do almost nothing to help the poor, In particular, such policies do not improve access to or lower the cost of nutritious diets. Nor do they improve emuiovment opportu- nities and other income prospects for the rural poor. Scope of Policies and Claims Despite the negligible impacts of farm subsidy pol- icies, the US Department of Agriculturu (USDA) and other government agencies are heavily involved in food subsidy and related programs that affect tne rurai economy and have many positive impacts on low-income 1)0seholds. 1 r example, the evi- dence is clea that inconens and food access of poor households are improved by subsidized school hinches, the Supplemental Na ttonal Assistant Program, and the Special Stpplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, which entail large income transfers, The USDA and other agencies also support research and Innovation in food, nutrition, and agriculture that have improved diets and. lowered costs for consumers over many decades. These important policies are widely rec- ognized as hugely in tNia But this report, following up on the work of Joseh W. Cauber, Daniel A. Sumner, and Parke E. Wilde, reassesses the imp. acts of farm commodity programs such as price and into e support pay- ments, Crop insurance sbsidies, internationil trade

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