U.S. Department of Agriculture
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D.C. Children in Rental Housing Are Food-Insecure: Report
A new survey found that one in four adults with children in the District say they can’t afford enough food…
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D.C. Seeks Summer Food Service Program Sponsors
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Summer Food Service Program, known in the District as the DC Summer Meals Program, provides…
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Black Farmers’ Descendants Continue Struggle for Farmland
Decades of structural racism within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has led to the virtual elimination of Black farmers,…
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Structural Racism Eliminated Black Farmers: Report
A new report from the Center for American Progress (CAP) provides insight on how decades of structural racism within the…
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USDA Prods Farmers to Participate in Agriculture Census
The Census of Agriculture has begun and the top administrator at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service…
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D.C. Schools Say No to Lunch Shaming
It happens across the country: children either cannot afford to or don't have the money to pay for their school…
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Trump Administration Curtails Obama School-Meal Initiative
Children eating meals in the nation's public schools will be consuming more salt, after the Trump administration decided to scale…
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Ex-UN Ambassador: Jobs, Not Racism, Is America’s Biggest Problem
It's forever a burning question, particularly as many African-Americans soul-search, reminisce and speculate during Black History Month: What would Martin…
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