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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...
When Deborah Bial answered her phone in a rental car in Chicago, the unfamiliar voice on the other end asked the founder of a nonprofit for urban high school graduates if she were alone and sitting down. He then told her that she would be receiving a half-million dollar grant through the MacArthur Fellows Program...
...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...