White Farmers Got 97 Percent of Last Year’s Ag Bailout. Now Some Are Mad Black Farmers Are Getting Debt Relief.
Airing their grievances: White farmers dish to Fox News about being excluded from government support.Fox News/screenshot Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.The recently passed $1.9 trillion COVID-relief bill set aside $5 billion in aid, mainly debt…
A COVID Outbreak at a California Meatpacking Plant Started a Year Ago—and Never Went Away
A woman wears a facemask while walking past the Farmer John Slaughterhouse in Los Angeles, CA. Frederic J. Brown/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This story was originally published by the Food and Environment Reporting Network.…
$5 Billion of the Stimulus Bill Seeks to Undo Damage Done to Farmers of Color
Virginia farmer John Boyd drives his tractor near the the Capitol in Washington in 2010.Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Photo Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.The US Department of Agriculture exists in part to help farmers “guard against…
Three Big Questions the Senate Agriculture Committee Needs to Ask Tom Vilsack
Once and future US Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack in 2016, during his first stint on the job. Thais Llorca/EFE via ZUMA Press Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.On Feb. 2, the Senate Agriculture Committee…
Worker Advocates Rally Around Biden’s Labor Department Pick
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, left, with Joe Biden in 2019. President-elect Biden has tapped Walsh to run the Department of Labor. Steven Senn/AP Photo Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.President Donald Trump treated the labor seat…
Guest Farm Workers Died of COVID in Obscurity While Trump Planned to Freeze Their Wages
A Honduran migrant worker harvests apples in Aspers, Pennsylvania. August 15, 2019. Lance Cheung/Zuma Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Two fathers and their sons traveled from Mexico this spring to grow and harvest North Carolina’s sweet…