Del. Michael San Nicolas (D), a nonvoting delegate who represents Guam in Congress, visited Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) office with guidebooks of the U.S. territory this week after the congresswoman incorrectly referred to it as a foreign land.
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A major provision in President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill aims to address decades of discrimination against Black, Hispanic, Native American and Asian American farmers who have historically been excluded from government agricultural programs. The American Rescue Plan sets aside $10.4 billion for agriculture support, with about half of that amount set aside for farmers of color, and allocates extra federal funds to farmers who were “subjected to racial or ethnic prejudice because of their identity as members of a group.” The U.S. Department of Agriculture has faced accusations of racism for decades, but little has been done to address the problem of discrimination in farm loans. John Boyd, a fourth-generation Black farmer and president of the National Black Farmers Association, says the new funds begin to address issues he has been fighting for 30 years. “This is a huge victory for Black farme
Electrification brought rural America into the 20th century, and life without it soon became unimaginable. In this Information Age, access to high speed Internet has taken its deserved place among the necessities of contemporary life.
Minnesota's senior Democratic U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar says the pandemic has "put a magnifying glass" on internet connectivity disparities throughout the country, especially in rural America.
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