Easy harvest: A well-meaning USDA program implodes on taxpayers
Story Date: 5/2/2013

 
Source:  CHICAGO TRIBUNE, 4/30/13

In 1999, President Bill Clinton set out to right a wrong: the government's widespread discrimination against black farmers, particularly in the South. The victims had applied for farming loans but, owing to bias on the part of federal loan officers, had been rejected.

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