Washington, D.C. Yesterday, a federal judge in Wisconsin issued a restraining order on $4 billion of debt relief that was part of a program designed to help Black and other farmers of color as part of the Biden administrations American Rescue Plan. Following the decision, Nicole Lee Ndumele, vice president for Racial Equity and Justice at the Center for American Progress, issued the following statement:
Decades of structural racism within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) have dispossessed farmers of color of their land and their livelihoods. When the pandemic hit, the systemic disadvantages that Black farmers faced continued. White farmers received 99 percent of COVID-19 relief, while Black, Hispanic, Native American, and Asia…
Read the full article at: https://www.americanprogress.org/press/statement/2021/06/11/500484/statement-usdas-debt-relief-program-farmers-color-quickly-reinstated/
