The federal promise of $4 billion in debt relief for minority farmers, part of the Biden administrations $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package, is a step toward justice, said three Democratic senators on Monday. They said the next step should be passage of legislation to root out discrimination at the USDA, transfer up to 32 million acres of land to Black farmers, and assure producers of a fair price when they sell livestock to meat processors.
Advocates call the debt relief provision the most pivotal civil rights legislation since the1964 civil rights lawthat prohibited segregation and banned discrimination in employment because it could preserve farming as a way of life for Black Americans. Less than 2% of U.S. farmers are Black today…
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