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<title>Plenty at stake in farm bill standoff</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Sep 20, 2012) UPDATE: Thursday afternoon, the Wall Street Journal reports House Speaker John Boehner has officially confirmed that the farm bill won&apos;t be taken up until after the November elections. North Country farmers are anxiously watching the status of the new farm bill in the House of Representatives. The current farm bill expires on September 30. The Senate passed a new five-year, $497 billion farm bill over the summer. But House leadership has yet to let its version come to the floor for a vote. &quot;Tea Party&quot; Republicans want to see much deeper cuts in the biggest item in the bill — the federal food stamp program.So what if the Farm Bill isn&apos;t passed by the end of the month? How would that affect North Country agriculture? [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/20506/20120920/plenty-at-stake-in-farm-bill-standoff">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>NCPR: David Sommerstein</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[UPDATE: Thursday afternoon, the Wall Street Journal reports House Speaker John Boehner has officially confirmed that the farm bill won&apos;t be taken up until after the November elections. North Country farmers are anxiously watching the status of the new farm bill in the House of Representatives. The current farm bill expires on September 30. The Senate passed a new five-year, $497 billion farm bill over the summer. But House leadership has yet to let its version come to the floor for a vote. &quot;Tea Party&quot; Republicans want to see much deeper cuts in the biggest item in the bill — the federal food stamp program.So what if the Farm Bill isn&apos;t passed by the end of the month? How would that affect North Country agriculture? [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/20506/20120920/plenty-at-stake-in-farm-bill-standoff">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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<itunes:keywords>photolead, politics, economy, agriculture, washington, congress, food, milk, dairy, organic, food stamps, low income, farming, [loc:38.8951118 -77.0363658], topstory</itunes:keywords>
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<title>NY drops fingerprinting requirement to get food stamps</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (May 18, 2012) Governor Cuomo announced Thursday that he’s rescinding a state regulation that requires food stamp recipients be fingerprinted. As Karen DeWitt reports, the governor is saying the poor and hungry are not criminals, and shouldn’t be treated that way. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/19845/20120518/ny-drops-fingerprinting-requirement-to-get-food-stamps">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>NCPR: Karen DeWitt</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Governor Cuomo announced Thursday that he’s rescinding a state regulation that requires food stamp recipients be fingerprinted. As Karen DeWitt reports, the governor is saying the poor and hungry are not criminals, and shouldn’t be treated that way. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/19845/20120518/ny-drops-fingerprinting-requirement-to-get-food-stamps">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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