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Black Farmers

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Obama Stands Firm on Push for Farm Program Reform

Budget Proposals Take Aim at Wealthy Farm Subsidy Recipients

 Measures Also Include Addressing Plight of Black Farmers and Child Nutrition
Making good on his promise to find savings in the federal budget, president Obama announced several proposed cuts today that could help reform a broken farm subsidy system.
» Read more... | Published May 7, 2009

Widening Farm Subsidy Gap Is Leaving Black Farmers Further Behind

House Agriculture Committee’s Farm Bill Will Lock In Inequity
Black farmers receive between one-third to one-sixth of the benefits under major federal crop subsidy programs that other farmers receive, and the “subsidy gap” has widened over the past decade.
» Read more... | Published July 25, 2007

New Legislation to Right the Wrongs of USDA Racial Discrimination

Statement of Ken Cook, EWG President
» Read more... | Published February 7, 2007

Press Release: Congressional Subcommittee Criticizes USDA Civil Rights Settlement

For Immediate Release September 29, 2004
At a Subcommittee hearing September 28, Chairman Steve Chabot (R-OH 1st) and other members supported the main findings in Environmental Working Group's (EWG) July 2004 investigation, which reported that the landmark 1999 civil rights settlement of black family farmers' discrimination claims against USDA (Pigford v. Glickman) has been almost a complete failure and must be redressed.
» Read more... | Published July 19, 2004

Review of USDA-Black Farmers Civil Rights Settlement Shows Program Almost a Complete Failure

Release Date
July 20, 2004
Nine in 10 Black Farmers Shut Out of Landmark Settlement
» Read more... | Published July 19, 2004