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New class of Hispanic program participants learns about USDA policy, more
About 30 staff from Hispanic-serving U.S. universities met at the U.S. Agriculture Department part of a resurrected program ...
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USDA Welcomes Diverse 2025 E. Kika De La Garza Fellows from Across the Nation to Strengthen Agricultural Leadership
USDA welcomes the 2025 class of E. Kika De La Garza Fellows from HSIs and HSSDs for policy insight and research collaboration ...
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USDA Welcomes 2025 Class of E. Kika De La Garza Fellows
The 30 EKDLG Fellows came to Washington, D.C., from Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) and Hispanic-Serving School Districts ...
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USDA Ends Consideration of Race and Gender for Grants and Loans
The agency published a rule in the federal register that will end the 30-year use of a 'socially disadvantaged' definition ...
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Researchers from UTSA take the lead on program training students for ...
Funding for CREA is provided by the USDA Hispanic-Serving Institutions Education Grants (HSI) Program, which was created in 2012 to strengthen innovative educational programming that prepares ...
US agriculture agency to end consideration of race, sex in many farm programs
WASHINGTON, July 10 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Thursday it would no longer consider a farmer's ...
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USDA issues payments to address discrimination against Black farmers - NPR
Black farmers got $2 billion in USDA payments to address discrimination in farm loans. For decades, Black farmers and others have argued that they’ve been left behind by the USDA’s lending ...