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Proposed farm bill cuts food stamp program by billions

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia,
Associated Press
Published July 12, 2012 at 12:42 PM EDT

The U.S House Agriculture Committee has approved a five-year farm bill that gives growers new ways to protect themselves from adversity. It also cuts funding for the food stamp program. 

Jim Letizia reports.
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Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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