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The Leviticus Fund, a Tarrytown-based nonprofit loan fund, received a $1.6 million Financial Assistance Award last month from the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) Fund.
After being knocked out of the playoffs by the 49ers for the second season in a row, breaking down the “whys” of how this happened again.
The dual financial system affects Black- and Brown-led firms. CDFIs have recently focused on shifting access to capital for developers.
Illinois hog producer Phil Borgic. If the rule is allowed U.S. hog farms will be subject to out-of-state auditors and inspectors. An 8,000-word brief on behalf of hog producers was filed Jan. 14 by the National Pork Producers Council and the American Farm Bureau in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9 th Circuit in California. The outcome will determine if California can start telling American farmers what they can produce and how they produce it, or their product will be banned from being sold to California’s 40 million consumers. The case is another attempt to overturn California’s...
In a U.S. appeals court brief filed Jan. 14, the National Pork Producers Council and the American Farm Bureau Federation emphasized that California’s Proposition 12 violates the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution by imposing arbitrary animal housing standards that reach outside of the state’s borders to farms across the country. In December 2019, NPPC and the American Farm Bureau Federation filed a lawsuit with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, asking the court to strike California’s Proposition 12 as invalid. That lawsuit is currently pending before the U.S. Court ...