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Cash Cows

Number 1297
Subject CAR
Source Jennifer LaFleur, Paul Rogers
State St. Louis Post-Dispatch, San Jose Mercury News
Year 2000
Publication Date Lexington NICAR 2000
Summary This tipsheet explains how the San Jose Mercury News used CAR techniques to discover that federal tax payers spend more than $100 million every year on grazing subsidies to keep cattle and sheep roaming public lands. The newspaper used federal billing records from the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service.
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