The lawmakers said that 99% of the USDA’s trade war payments and 97% of its coronavirus relief payments have gone to white farmers. About 95% of U.S. farmers are white.
Woody Guthrie had a lot to say about the greed of bankers who made crop loans at usurious interest rates to hardscrabble farmers, then foreclosed on them when they couldn’t
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The USDA Is Set To Give Black Farmers Debt Relief. They’ve Heard That One Before
By Emma Hurt
June 4, 2021
Farmers of color are set to get some unprecedented debt relief starting this month from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The latest federal COVID aid package includes an estimated $4 billion for the USDA to wipe away these farmers’ debts.
It’s an unprecedented Congressional mandate to make up for the damage that decades of lending discrimination has had on farmers of color. The distrust runs so deep that the department has been dubbed “the last plantation.”
/PRNewswire/ It is a privilege for the National Black Farmers Association (NBFA) to administer a scholarship program to ensure that the next generation of.
by Emma HurtJun, 04 2021 (All Things Considered)
President of the National Black Farmer s Association John Boyd stands in his fields in Baskerville, Va. He says the USDA s relief program is like the fox watching the hen house. Image: Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images
Farmers of color are set to get some unprecedented debt relief starting this month from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The latest federal COVID aid package includes an estimated $4 billion for the USDA to wipe away these farmers debts.
It s an unprecedented Congressional mandate to make up for the damage that decades of lending discrimination has had on farmers of color. The distrust runs so deep that the department has been dubbed the last plantation.