Economist Goss calls for delinking farm bill, SNAP

Tim Kenyon
Nov 4, 2024
Nov 4, 2024

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Ernie Goss is the director of the Institute for Economic Inquiry and a professor of economics at Creighton University’s Heider College of Business, where he holds the Jack A. Mac-Allister Chair in Regional Economics.

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