Between 2010 and 2020, more than two-thirds of U.S. rural communities experienced sustained population loss, driven by outmigration, declining birth rates, and corporate land and resource grabs that prioritize profit over community needs. This decline fuels a vicious cycle: as young people leave, rural areas lose workforce, businesses, services, and tax revenue, further eroding schools…
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The agricultural industry has long promoted the idea that large-scale industrialized agriculture and Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) is necessary to “feed the world” and that industrial agriculture operations…
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The U.S. is built on a long history of disenfranchisement and land theft, which continues to have significant repercussions today. The legalized enslavement of Black people built the U.S.…
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In February 2021, Senators Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and Cory Booker (D-NJ) introduced the Emergency Relief for Farmers of Color Act in Congress. The sponsors’ intention was both to pay…
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As climate disasters from deadly wildfires to devastating floods dominate headlines and wreak havoc across the country, the need to electrify our energy grid and shift to renewable energy…
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