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Statistic: Commodity Outlook
June 01, 2005

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Markets and Trade

Mexico's food and beverage industries attract substantially higher net inflows of foreign direct investment than production agriculture
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Diet and Health

About 86 percent of the almost 9 million households that received food stamps in FY 2003 had at least one child, elderly person, or disabled person
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Farms, Firms, and Households

Acres of program commodities help explain the distribution of comodity program payment, 2003
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Rural America

The metro-nonmetro gap in child poverty rates narrowed in the 1990's but widened again in the early 2000's
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Higher shares of nonmetro poor children receive food stamps than metro children, 2004
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