Agriculture Department employees found to have engaged in discriminatory actions would be subject to discipline ranging from a letter of reprimand to dismissal under a bill filed Thursday by Rep.

I have never seen a U.S. Department of Agriculture like this one. At the very beginning of the Obama administration, Tom Vilsack, the secretary of agriculture, has developed initiatives to address the ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture is embarking on a partnership with universities across the country in hopes of infusing its ranks with more diversity as it faces civil ...

Before I was sworn in as Secretary of Agriculture, recent folks who had the job—both Republican and Democratic—suggested that it was important that I set a new, proactive course to move past USDA’s ...

In the end, it was the commute that got to Vernon Parker, the embattled civil rights director at the Department of Agriculture. He was flying home to Paradise Valley, Ariz., every week, piling up debt ...

When Tom Vilsack became head of the Agriculture Department last year, he faced a backlog of 11,000 civil rights complaints and several unresolved class-action lawsuits from minority farmers and ...

Washington, D.C., June 02, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil rights group, has filed a complaint and a motion for preliminary injunction in the ...

Shorlette Ammons comes from a family of tenant farmers in eastern North Carolina. Her grandfather raised hogs and grew row crops. In high school, she worked summers in tobacco and cucumber fields.

WASHINGTON — The Agriculture Department’s first civil rights chief is stepping down, the department said. Vernon Parker is resigning as assistant secretary for civil rights after three years on the ...

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