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The White House’s announcement asserts that the new plan will provide “significant relief” for Black and Latino borrowers. “We know there are big racial disparities in the student loan ...
About $4 billion in federal stimulus money designated to forgive loans for Black and ... provide the debt relief authorized by Congress.” This isn’t the first time that white folks have ...
Democrats hailed the inclusion of relief for farmers of color as vital to addressing historic inequalities, particularly for Black farmers ... but if you’re a white person, if you’re a ...
who advocates for Black farmers, has said the debt relief program is fair. “White farmers received nearly $9.7 billion in pandemic relief in October of 2020 and socially disadvantaged farmers ...
What do Black farmers want out of the lawsuit? Cornelius Blanding: Equity is needed here. Not that you can’t [provide relief] for white farmers and other farmers — because we can, and we should.
Today, after months of planning, USDA begins this historic debt relief program ... primarily to white producers while socially disadvantaged producers — a legal term for Black, Hispanic ...
By Alan Rappeport WASHINGTON — A $4 billion program to help Black ... to land. White farmers and groups representing them questioned whether the government could base debt relief on race and ...
The $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package that President Biden ... I don’t care if you’re purple, black, yellow, white, gray, if you borrow money you have to pay it back," Kelly Griggs ...
Despite receiving 97% of COVID-19 farm relief funds in 2020, white farmers across the country are taking legal action to stop Black farmers from benefitting from a new relief bill that some have ...
As the Trump administration begins referring defaulted student loan accounts for collections on May 5, advocates for student loan debt relief and ... both Black and white, or the increase of ...