Pigford v. Glickman: 86,000 claims from 39,697 total farmers? This means that the U.S. may be recompensing at least 86,000 African-American farmers for past racial discrimination. But how could that possibly be true if there are only 39,697 African-American farmers in existence nationwide? And if only some subset of them ever applied for loans in
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Perhaps there were multiple instances that qualified for restitution per farmer, each requiring a claim.
Perhaps this is total claims over the life of the program, and there are *currently* only 39k farmers.
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At that site that was posted it said that a large percentage didn't make the deadline for a variety of reasons. Obama and Chuck Grassley both, as senators, had the case reopened. A judge held the federal government responsible for the decline of black farmers. It does explain the disparity.
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What is keeping black folks out of this industry?
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