Black, Minority Farmers Get $2 Billion From USDA After Discrimination

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Black and other minority farmers are receiving $2 billion in direct payments from the federal government after facing years of discrimination, the Associated Press reports.
According to the USDA, over 23,000 farmers were approved to receive payments ranging from $10,000 to $500,000. Another 20,000 people who planned to start a farm but were denied a USDA loan received payments between $3,500 and $6,000.
The payments come after a long history of the USDA refusing to process lo