Kids Library Home

Welcome to the Kids' Library!

Search for books, movies, music, magazines, and more.

     
Available items only
Print Material
Author Kostigen, Thomas.

Title The big handout : how government subsidies and corporate welfare corrupt the world we live in and wreak havoc on our food bills / Thomas M. Kostigen.

Imprint [Emmaus, PA] : Rodale, c2011.

Copies

Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  338.1873 K848b 2011    ---  Available
Description xiii, 288 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Note Includes index.
Contents The grocery store -- The advent of subsidies -- The meat counter -- Poultry -- Pork -- Dairy -- Sugar and beverages -- Breads and cereals -- Rice -- Cotton -- Fruits and vegetables -- Fish -- Oil and gas -- Steel -- The growth of subsidies -- Why they make us poor -- Why they make us fat -- Why they make us hated -- Wrecking the environment -- Who benefits -- Power players -- What can we do to change? -- What would the world look like without subsidies?
Summary Proposes that government subsidies are the cause of many problems in the United States, including foreign policy, health, food supply, and more.
Subject Subsidies -- United States.
Agricultural subsidies -- United States.
Industrial policy -- United States.
United States -- Commercial policy.
United States -- Economic policy.
ISBN 9781609611132 (alk. paper)
1609611136 (alk. paper)
Standard No. AU@ 000046891981

 
    
Available items only