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USDA faces series of discrimination lawsuits.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-JAN-04
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: USDA faces series of discrimination lawsuits.(US Department of Agriculture)

Article Excerpt
Forget floods, drought, or mad cow disease. What's really worrying the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) these days are the new lawsuits it's facing.

The lawsuits--at press time, four--allege rampant discrimination at the USDA against African-American, Latino, Native American, female, and elderly farmers. The chief defendant is the USDA's Farm Services Agency (FSA), which makes or guarantees loans to small farmers (those with less than $250,000 in annual sales) who cannot get conventional loans.

Minorities have long alleged that the FSA discriminates against them. This mistrust was exacerbated when the USDA shut down its civil rights enforcement program in the 1980s. For almost 15 years, discrimination complaints were simply ignored. In the late 1990s, the civil rights office was...

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