The Biden administration submitted to Congress on Friday the President’s priorities for fiscal year 2022 discretionary spending including $27.8 billion for USDA, a $3.8 billion, or 16% increase from the 2021 enacted level.
In a statement, USDA says the funding request advances key agency priorities, including economic development and growth in rural America, maintaining support for American agriculture, rebuilding scientific expertise in our agencies, aiding in an all-of-government approach to mitigate and adapt to climate change, and supporting a strong safety net to address hunger and nutrition insecurity.
“The President’s budget provides the resources to build back better, stronger, and more resilient and equitably than ever before,” says Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. “This is our moment to solve big challenges by acting boldly to close the broadband gap facing rural America; to work with farmers, ranchers and producers to transform our nation’s food system and
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The National Grocers Association (NGA) outlined in a blog post on Thursday several steps it wants Congress to take to make it easier for retailers, especially smaller grocers, to offer the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC).
Barriers to offering WIC faced by retailers include burdensome requirements for approval and the fact that some states have a slow vendor licensing process, wrote Molly Pfaffenroth, NGA’s senior director of government relations. The trade group wants to see a task force created to improve the vendor management system for WIC and is pushing for online purchasing to become an option for WIC recipients.
Posted by Jan Wondra | Apr 7, 2021
While the impacts of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan (ARP) will be debated for years to come, Colorado’s congressional representatives are beginning to sort out what it will mean for small towns and rural communities impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and recession.
For Colorado, the share of the ARP stimulus, according to independent analyses and estimates provided by members of its congressional delegation, is projected to be $17 billion in direct aid to individuals and government entities in this state. Billions more will flow to the state through other conditional or indirect programs funded by the bill.
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