Saturday, March 20, 2021

Will Biden’s relief package break Black farmers’ ‘cycle of debt’? – Center for Public Integrity

... One of the most vicious things they did was advance the [Black] farmer a little bit, so he could start planting and then halt the payments after that. And here he was with that crop planted but he couldn't get any pesticides to kill the pests or herbicides to kill the weeds so he lost the crop...

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