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  • Agriculture secretary: Black farmers received 0.1 percent of Trump administration farm relief

    04/01/2021 12:06:55 AM PDT · by blueplum · 35 replies
    The Hill ^ | 31 Mar 2021 | Joseph Choi
    Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said that only 0.1 percent of coronavirus relief set aside by the Trump administration for American farmers went to Black farmers, according to a Washington Post interview published on Thursday.... “We saw 99 percent of the money going to White farmers and 1 percent going to socially disadvantaged farmers and if you break that down to how much went to Black farmers, it’s 0.1 percent,” Vilsack said. ...The Post notes that only 1.3 percent of American farmers — around 45,000 — are Black...