Nearly 28,000 U.s. Farmers Received Subsidies Or Disaster Relief Payments For 32 Straight Years

By: Gil Gullickson

The Environmental Working Group (EWG) has issued a report on what it says are almost 28,000 U.S. farmers who received taxpayer-funded federal farm subsidies or disaster relief payments for 32 straight years.

That’s according to a new EWG analysis of USDA data. It says these payments tallied around $19.2 billion of federal dollars over this time.