"About 85 percent of the average family income is now being used just to buy food to keep a family going."

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

But David DeGennaro with the Environmental Working Group puts it this way: "It's really kind of ridiculous that American taxpayers are going to be subsidizing Brazilian cotton farmers just so that we can keep on subsidizing our own cotton farmers.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28