The recognition offered yesterday to leaders of the farmworker movement by US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack was welcome. The event was marred however by the audacity of the Secretary to stand in front of the leaders of the struggle of the farmworkers and proclaim “Si, se puede!” after he approved a proposal to largely end the […]
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Tag Archives: USDA housing
Labor Secretary hosts ceremony honoring Cesar Chavez while slashing funds for housing farmworkers
March 27, 2012 
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USDA offers lame excuses while slashing housing funds for the rural poor
July 18, 2011 1 Comment
US Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack either is poorly informed or being disingenuous about cuts the Obama Administration has proposed for rural housing. People living in rural areas are going to suffer big time. I sat down and wrote Secretary Vilsack a letter the other week telling him that his proposed budget cutting the […]
Read moreAs the pumpkin season approaches there is not housing for farm workers in the Texas pumpkin capital
August 25, 2008 Comments Off
The farm worker housing development in Floydada, TX and in the Texas Panhandle’s Floyd County is closed. Farm workers are present in fairly large numbers to tend and harvest pumpkins in a county that styles itself as “Pumpkin Capital, USA.” Housing is difficult to find. It used to be that thirty families or so would […]
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