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Agriculture
fromFortune
22 hours ago

Rural America's farm economy is struggling with its own K shape, as government payouts rocket to crisis levels | Fortune

Farmers face a K-shaped crisis: rising production and financing costs while crop prices fall, driving bankruptcies despite large government aid.
fromPoynter
1 week ago

A few months into its new era, '60 Minutes' still feels like '60 Minutes' - Poynter

Here's another that aired Sunday night: correspondent Bill Whitaker reported on Trump's battles with elite universities over accusations of liberal bias and antisemitism. He has threatened to cut their federal funding for research. If Trump were to follow through on more of those threats, it could jeopardize research into potentially life-saving advances in medicine and severely limit scientific progress. Harvard scientist Don Ingber told Whitaker, "We are truly putting the brakes on scientific innovation in this country at a time when our ostensible adversary, China, is going faster and faster and faster."
US politics
fromFortune
1 month ago

Farmer warns 'this is a five-alarm fire' as time is running out ahead of harvest, and there's still no China deal | Fortune

He doesn't know where he and others like him will sell their crop because China has stopped buying. Beijing, which traditionally has snapped up at least a quarter of all soybeans grown in the U.S., is in effect boycotting them in retaliation for the high tariffs President Donald Trump has imposed on Chinese goods and to strengthen its hand in negotiations over a new overall trade deal.
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