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Black farmers picket USDA

September 13, 2002 By Brenda Crawford-Clark

About 100 African-American farmers picketed the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in Washington Aug. 22 to protest stalling on delivery of restitution payments for thousands of Black farmers who were denied government crop loans because they...

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Political shadow of the farm bill

August 8, 2002 By Brenda Crawford-Clark

As the new Farm Bill has been passed by Congress and is expected to be approved by President Bush, The Wall Street Journal is voicing its disapproval. It proclaims: “All that rooting, snooting noise you hear...

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WTOs third try a charm for Southern nations

April 26, 2002 By Brenda Crawford-Clark

Two years ago in Seattle, the transnational corporations at the meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO) expected to extend so-called “free trade,” already in place under NAFTA, around the world. Their plot failed due to...

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Helping your overweight child

March 8, 2002 By Brenda Crawford-Clark

According to recent government studies, an increasing number of children in this country, many of them quite young, are overweight.

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Congress sustains farm subsidies

February 22, 2002 By Brenda Crawford-Clark

The Senate and House of Representatives have passed sharply differing versions of a new farm bill but both would continue substantial farm price subsidies, which are vital for the vast majority of American farmers.

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Subsidies are todays key farm issue

February 1, 2002 By Brenda Crawford-Clark

Just when the Republican majority of the House had approved farm subsidies for the next 10 years and the Democrat-controlled Senate, with the support of some Republicans, stood ready to enact subsidies for the next five...

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Republicans stop action on vital farm bill

January 12, 2002 By Brenda Crawford-Clark

After months of hearings in farm regions across the nation, Senate Democrats brought to the floor a new farm bill for the next five years that would have protected farmers from expected low commodity prices.

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End before-school chaos

January 12, 2002 By Brenda Crawford-Clark

Is that vision of the ideal TV family of the 60s still locked in your memory every morning – the smiling Mom and Dad leisurely discussing the coming day over a nourishing breakfast with their loving,...

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