More than 7,000 Illinois Jobs Depend on the Candy Industry Recently Passed Farm Bill Continues Price Supports That Have Shipped 130,000 Jobs Overseas
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–February 10, 2014. U.S. Senator Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), Congressman Danny Davis (D-Ill.-07), and Bill Kelley, Vice Chair of Jelly Belly, Inc. held a press conference today to call for an end of the U.S. Sugar Program that artificially creates high prices for sugar producers at the expense of consumers and Illinois-based candy…
