BY PHILIP MATTERA CORPORATE RESEARCH PROJECT OF GOOD JOBS FIRST Released At the Food and Agriculture Conference of The Organization for Competitive Markets EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Complete Paper: PDF | Google Scholar (HTML) IN ITS EARLY DAYS, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) was dubbed the “People’s Department” by President Lincoln, in recognition of its role in helping the large portion of the population that worked the land. Some 140 years later, USDA has been transformed into something Read More …