and business practices that have unjustly denied Black farmers equitable access to capital. Adding insult to injury is that white farmers were the ones to most benefit from the pandemic relief ...

arguing that offering debt relief on the basis of skin color is discriminatory, suggesting that a successful Black farmer could have his debts cleared while a struggling white farm could go out of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

But advocates for Black farmers are already wary of how a new program could be administered since the new draft text opens up the door for white farmer debt relief and doesn’t explicitly say ...