date:Jun 02, 2012
The USDA data, which EWG has analyzed over the past two weeks, shows that 26 policy holders benefitted from more than $1 million apiece in premium subsidies in 2011. The state with the most million-dollar beneficiaries was North Dakota, with 5. Texas and Georgia each had 4.
According to EWG, thestudyis the most detailed disclosure of federal crop insurance benefits to date, tracking subsidies across 686,273 insurance policies issued to 486,867 policyholders last year, when the programs costs ex