About 30 staff from Hispanic-serving U.S. universities met at the U.S. Agriculture Department part of a resurrected program ...

USDA welcomes the 2025 class of E. Kika De La Garza Fellows from HSIs and HSSDs for policy insight and research collaboration ...

The agency published a rule in the federal register that will end the 30-year use of a 'socially disadvantaged' definition ...

A lawsuit alleges that Biden-era DEI policies at the USDA unconstitutionally deny financial assistance to farmers based on race and sex.

UAMS researchers recently found that improving the USDA’s SNAP program for Women, Infants, and Children could help boost ...

UAMS studies have shown the importance of nutrition programs like WIC to reduce infant and maternal mortality in Arkansas, ...

The two counties with the highest share of Hispanic and Latino residents in 2024 were Saluda County in the Midlands, an hour ...

The two counties with the highest share of Hispanic and Latino residents in 2024 were Saluda County in the Midlands, an hour outside Columbia, and Jasper County ...

Teachers, police officers, firefighters and other workers live in overcrowded and substandard housing, or even in their cars ...