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STATEMENT: Secretary Vilsack Has the Experience To Hit the Ground Running at the USDA Date: December 10, 2020 Contact: Julia Cusick Mara Rudman, executive vice president for Policy at the Center for American Progress, issued the following statement: Secretary Vilsack returns to the USDA with the experience to immediately hit the ground running. He now has the opportunity to lead the department into a new era by tackling some of the country’s most urgent challenges: hunger, corporate concentration in farming, and rural poverty. The USDA has an important role to play in alleviating poverty a...

Marc Jarsulic, chief economist at the Center for American Progress, issued the following statement: Today’s suits are welcome and overdue. Facebook has a dominant social media platform that produces huge profits and gives the company enormous influence over an important means of communication. It’s clear that Facebook has long sought to preserve its monopoly power by acquiring competitors such as WhatsApp and Instagram. By doing so, it has denied consumers access to more innovative and less invasive social media platforms. These and other behaviors by Facebook appear to be both anti-...