With Republicans complaining of discrimination against white farmers, the House passed a coronavirus relief bill on Wednesday that would provide an estimated $4 billion in debt relief for socially disadvantaged farmers. The financial assistance comes at the end of a generation-long campaign dating from the so-called Pigford settlement of 1999, in which the USDA acknowledged decades of bias against Black farmers in its farm loan and other assistance programs.
President Bidensaid he would sign the $1.9 trillion coronavirus bill on Friday at the White House. Agriculture SecretaryTom Vilsacksaid the package, which includes $16 billion in public nutrition and agricultural aid, provides historic debt relief to Black, Indigenous, Hispanic, and…
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