As food prices go sky high and millions go hungry in America, why are tax dollars being spent on farmers who don't farm? BILL MOYERS JOURNAL teams up with EXPOSÉ: AMERICA'S INVESTIGATIVE REPORTS to follow the trail of Washington Post reporters who uncovered more than $15 billion in “wasteful, unnecessary, or redundant expenditures” that have flowed from Washington to America’s farmers.

As food prices go sky high and millions go hungry in America, why are tax dollars being spent on farmers who don't farm? BILL MOYERS JOURNAL teams up with EXPOSÉ: AMERICA'S INVESTIGATIVE REPORTS to follow the trail of Washington Post reporters who uncovered more than $15 billion in "wasteful, unnecessary, or redundant expenditures" that have flowed from Washington to America's farmers. The broadcast also looks at shortages at America's food banks, and Bill Moyers talks with David Beckmann, president of Bread for the World, about the challenges of combating hunger and the new farm bill being negotiated in Congress.