date:Jun 16, 2012
ndment to the bill that wouldroll back some of the worst aspects of current sugar policy, without completely repealing the program.
In 2006, the US Department of Commerce was tasked with investigating whether food manufacturing and sugar refining jobs had been moved overseas as a result of US sugar policy. Its report concluded thatfor each one sugar growing and harvesting job saved through high US sugar prices, nearly three confectionery manufacturing jobs are lost.