A Government Accountability Office report released last week slammed the Dept of Agriculture as still not confronting its decades-long record of discrimination. GAO says the Dept lacks even credible data about the number of bias complaints it has received from both minority farmers and its own federal employees. Class action lawsuits from Latino, American Indian, and women farmers are now being filed against USDA. As the Washington Post’s Darryl Fears reported yesterday, this is nothing new—the Dept. has paid out $972 million since the 70’s to black farmers who’ve charged discrimination.  Read Fears here.  MB

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