A Slow Demise in the Delta
From 2001 to 2005, the federal government spent nearly $1.2 billion in agricultural subsidies to boost farmers' incomes and invigorate local economies in a poverty-stricken region of the Mississippi Delta. Most residents are black, but less than five percent of the money went to black farmers. Ninety-five percent of the money went to large, commercial farms, virtually all of which have white owners.
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/062207LB.shtml
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rudkla - 23. Jun, 09:20
