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Claire Kelloway @clairek.bsky.social · 14d

Thanks to @marketplace.org for covering this big change to the Farm Bill!

Claire Kelloway @clairek.bsky.social · 14d

Further, just as the OBBB added work requirements for SNAP recipients, it eased requirements that farmers prove they're actively engaged in farming in order to receive federal farm subsidies and made it easier for larger farms to receive more subsidies www.foodandpower.net/latest/obbb-...

Budget Bill Expands Subsidies for Largest Farms, Cuts SNAP — Food & Power

As Republicans added work requirements for SNAP, they also made it easier for non-active farm owners to collect more federal subsidies.

www.foodandpower.net

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Claire Kelloway @clairek.bsky.social · 14d

This has massive implications for feeding low-income families and for hundreds of smaller sustainable ag programs that the OBBB left behind. @nsac-sustainableag.bsky.social sustainableagriculture.net/blog/release...

Release: Budget Bill Steamrolls Farm Bill Future, Slashing Billions

The House Agriculture Committee’s new budget reconciliation bill proposes over $290 billion in cuts—primarily from nutrition and conservation programs—while increasing commodity subsidies and sidelini...

sustainableagriculture.net

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Claire Kelloway @clairek.bsky.social · 14d

The OBBB changed a lot of important things, including the way Congress passes food and farm policy. By reauthorizing much of the Farm Bill through the OBBB, including massive SNAP cuts, there's little incentive for Congress to pass a traditional Farm Bill, now or maybe ever again.

Open Markets Institute @openmarkets.bsky.social · 15d

Our Food Program manager @clairek.bsky.social spoke with @marketplace.org about the Farm Bill and how the once-bipartisan process for passing it has changed ---> www.marketplace.org/story/2025/0...

This year, punctuality is the least of the farm bill’s problems

The sweeping legislation that funds everything from agricultural subsidies to nutrition assistance and conservation program is two years overdue for a full refresh.

www.marketplace.org

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Claire Kelloway @clairek.bsky.social · 14d

Excited to collaborate for the first time with Successful Farming, thanks to @thefern.org !

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Claire Kelloway @clairek.bsky.social · 14d

At first the Trump admin said farms & food plants would not be targets for immigration raids, but as pressures mount to meet aggressive deportation targets, that's beginning to change. This threatens US food security and approx. 850,000 immigrant families who have worked on US farms for decades

The Food & Environment Reporting Network @thefern.org · 14d

Read the full story, a collaboration with Successful Farming, at thefern.org/2025/09/is-f...

@clairek.bsky.social

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The Food & Environment Reporting Network @thefern.org · 14d

Read the full story, a collaboration with Successful Farming, at thefern.org/2025/09/is-f...

@clairek.bsky.social

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Claire Kelloway @clairek.bsky.social · 20d

Kraft Heinz lost 60% of its stock value since merging, and now it wants to split in search of growth.

Getting too big and PE cost-cutting set Kraft Heinz back, but it still dominates many segments of the grocery store, and this split won’t change that.
substack.com/home/post/p-...

After a Rough Decade, Kraft Heinz Splits Up

Turns out bigger isn’t always better.

substack.com

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Claire Kelloway @clairek.bsky.social · Jul 21

With lots of buzz about Mamdani's public grocery pilot, Zephyr Teachout urges mayors to *also* use competition policy to bring down food prices and help local grocers and farmers: ending big box favoritism, commercial bribery, and price gouging www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/o...

Opinion | The Solution to $10 Eggs Lies Within New York City Limits

www.nytimes.com

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FarmSTAND @farmstand.bsky.social · Jul 18

Cutting SNAP while widening loopholes for Big Ag: hypocritical and "will drive farm consolidation and raise land prices, hurting smaller farms and young farmers." ✏️ @clairek.bsky.social

Budget Bill Expands Subsidies for Largest Farms, Cuts SNAP — Food & Power

As Republicans added work requirements for SNAP, they also made it easier for non-active farm owners to collect more federal subsidies.

www.foodandpower.net

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Claire Kelloway @clairek.bsky.social · Jul 11

I recently contributed an essay to the @statesforum.bsky.social's inaugural policy journal on tools that states can use to combat corporate price gouging of rural peoples' basic needs: groceries, healthcare, and equipment repair

statesforum.org/journal/issu...

Fair Markets For Rural America - The States Forum

Every election season, red and blue maps reinforce the myth of “two Americas,” the wealthy, liberal cities and the declining, conservative countryside.

statesforum.org

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Claire Kelloway @clairek.bsky.social · Jun 20

Extremely grateful for the editors at FERN who made this opportunity possible! (photo credit to James Beard Foundation/Galdones Photography)

Ted Ross and Claire Kelloway holding James Beard medals

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Claire Kelloway @clairek.bsky.social · Jun 20

Surreal - I was part of the team at @thefern.org that won a James Beard Media award last weekend! 🎉

The Food & Environment Reporting Network @thefern.org · Jun 17

We’re thrilled to share that three articles from our Special Series “The Farm Bill Fight” won a James Beard Media award in the columns and newsletters category.

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The Food & Environment Reporting Network @thefern.org · Jun 4

In this episode of Gravy, a podcast from the Southern Foodways Alliance, reporter Boyce Upholt digs into a problem that extends well beyond the Gulf Coast: how for decades imported seafood has undercut local prices, effectively killing local fishing fleets in places like Biloxi, Mississippi.

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Marcia Brown @marciabrown.bsky.social · Jun 2

New study from Yale on SNAP work requirements in CT:

-Work requirements cut enrollment by 25%
-Older, sicker people more likely to lose benefits
-After ending work requirements, enrollment didn't return to previous levels

tobin.yale.edu/research/sna...

SNAP work requirements have biggest effect on those least able to work

Most people pushed out of SNAP in Connecticut didn’t find their way back in, even when work requirements were later reversed.

tobin.yale.edu

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Joseph McIntyre @josmac101.bsky.social · May 29

Kudos to @clairek.bsky.social and Food & Power blog from the Open Market Institute for it deep look at the even more deeply flawed #MAHA commission report. The conclusion: behind every potentially good idea is an actually policy of Trump that undermines it. Corporate power still rules in #ag.

MAHA Report’s Rhetoric Contradicts Administration’s Actions — Food & Power

The MAHA report says food and chemical corporations should be held accountable for making children sick but the actions of Congress and the Trump administration reveal different priorities.

www.foodandpower.net

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Open Markets Institute @openmarkets.bsky.social · May 28

NEW: 🚢⚓️ Our transportation policy analyst Arnav Rao has a big, new report out today on why U.S. maritime power declined - and how to effectively revive it.

Read the report & his corresponding piece in @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

How America Lost Control of the Seas

Thanks to decades of misguided policy choices, the U.S. has an astonishing lack of maritime capacity.

www.theatlantic.com

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Marcia Brown @marciabrown.bsky.social · May 23

Fascinating look at how states are trying to deal with an emerging consumer issue.

Claire Kelloway @clairek.bsky.social · May 22

Grocery chains collect large swaths of data on customers’ location, past purchases, demographics, and web-browsing history to offer targeted advertising, promotions, and prices. As pricing gets more private, shoppers will have a harder time comparing prices and discerning what is truly a deal.

Open Markets Institute @openmarkets.bsky.social · May 19

NEW from @clairek.bsky.social's Food & Power:

🛒 States Try to Ban Surveillance Pricing in Grocery Stores and Beyond foodandpower.substack.com/p/states-try...

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Claire Kelloway @clairek.bsky.social · May 22

"The primary conceit [in Abundance] is that in many areas, the private sector is ready to invest—and to invest big—if politicians would only lift public barriers standing in their way. There is little evidence that is true."

Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · May 22

“The authors back their claims with anecdotes of regulations stifling development. This is not rigorous argument, however, but a ‘story,’ as the authors themselves put it. The problem is that stories can be deeply misleading.”

Sandeep Vaheesan reviews ABUNDANCE by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson:

The Real Path to Abundance - Boston Review

To deliver plentiful housing and clean energy, we have to get the story right about what’s standing in the way.

www.bostonreview.net

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Claire Kelloway @clairek.bsky.social · May 22

@consumerreports.org exposed how Kroger creates (at times inaccurate) shopper profiles to offer discriminatory discounts. “The way this data is being used is very clearly widening the gap between upper, middle, and low-income households" [email protected] www.consumerreports.org/money/questi...

Inside Kroger's Secret Shopper Profiles: Why You May Be Paying More Than Your Neighbors - Consumer Reports

Kroger has secret shopper profiles on millions of its grocery customers. They may be affecting what consumers pay for goods.

www.consumerreports.org

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Claire Kelloway @clairek.bsky.social · May 22

Grocery chains collect large swaths of data on customers’ location, past purchases, demographics, and web-browsing history to offer targeted advertising, promotions, and prices. As pricing gets more private, shoppers will have a harder time comparing prices and discerning what is truly a deal.

Open Markets Institute @openmarkets.bsky.social · May 19

NEW from @clairek.bsky.social's Food & Power:

🛒 States Try to Ban Surveillance Pricing in Grocery Stores and Beyond foodandpower.substack.com/p/states-try...

States Try to Ban Surveillance Pricing in Grocery Stores and Beyond

Are you paying more for pop tarts based on your web browsing history?

foodandpower.substack.com

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Claire Kelloway @clairek.bsky.social · May 10

Get a copy for you and your friends here 😛 microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/zine...

Resist Monopolies!: How to Fight Corporate Control and Support an Economy That Matters

What can we do to resist monopolies in a world that tells us they’re too big to fail and too strong to fight? We take them on anyway! From vacant downtowns to...

microcosmpublishing.com

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Claire Kelloway @clairek.bsky.social · May 10

It's here!! @ronmknox.bsky.social's super rad antimonopoly ZINE! It's a concise compelling tale of how people power can stand up to our modern day robber barons - for sharing far and wide

Cover of the zine "Resist Monopolies" by Ron Knox, image of workers and a farmer challenging three fat cat monopolist men in top hats

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Claire Kelloway @clairek.bsky.social · May 7

FERN is being recognized for their Farm Bill series, produced with @motherjones.com . I contributed a brief history highlighting some of the worst Farm Bill blunders that built the inequitable food system we have today www.motherjones.com/food/2024/02...

The farm bill hall of shame

The maddening history of today’s agriculture policy fights.

www.motherjones.com

Claire Kelloway @clairek.bsky.social · May 7

I'm grateful to work with the stellar editors at @thefern.org and totally humbled and honored to be among their writing cohort nominated for a James Beard Media Award!

The Food & Environment Reporting Network @thefern.org · May 7

We're excited to announce that eight FERN stories have been nominated for a James Beard Award. These awards are among the nation’s most prestigious honors recognizing leaders in the culinary and food media industries, and we’re honored to be recognized.

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