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...dusty patch is not in Missouri - it's in China. Earlier this year, Western Cattle started to raise Holsteins on an American-style ranch and feedlot built in the wide open spaces of Inner Mongolia. Their goal: deliver truckloads of well-marbled beef to the waiting plates of urban China's growing middle class. With a target herd of 75,000, U.S.-based Western Cattle has the potential to be the leading company in the third-largest beef-producing nation in the world. And if the company's Western take on raising cattle catches on in the East, it could...
...TOTAL STATE GRANT PROGRAM + URBAN AREA SECURITY INITIATIVE...
...MORE GREAT TASTE But the smaller percentage is now applied to a larger pot of money--one that combines a state grant program with the Urban Area Security Initiative. That ensures that low-risk states will still end up with a big pile of cash...
Once you’re there, the sights that strike you are the 100 franchises of Kentucky Fried Chicken and views of freeways lined with alternating neon lights. Sustained economic development has conferred upon Shanghai’s urban planners and real estate developers a taste for excess that makes you forget large swaths of the country are still without electricity...
...half, from .75% to .375%, sounds like real progress, right? But it turns out that, while the new formula reduces the percentage, it starts with a much bigger pool. The minimum percentage, as written into the law, is now a percentage of state grants plus something called the Urban-Area Security Initiative, a separate program dedicated to high-risk cities. That program accounted for $747 million in 2007. So the impact of the lower percentage is undercut by the use of a much bigger denominator, notes the report, authored by CRS employees Shawn Reese and Steven Maguire. (CRS is Congress...