Via online from publisher., Editor addresses a state governor's agenda at the expense of the beef industry, illustrating a continuing "struggle with the divide between urban and rural communities."
4pgs, Online from publication., Describes the U.S. Census Bureau's decision to pull the agency's enumerators out of the field due to COVID-19 with about one-half of the state's remote villages uncounted. A legislator representing that area described this as "a politically motivated effort to undermine our political clout and to strip us of resources." The Native Voice Network, a nationwide coalition of 40 Native-led organizations was among those pushing Congress to complete the census for an accurate count.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11768
Notes:
Report from Agri-Pulse received online via AgriMarketing Weekly. 6 pages., Report of a letter to Capitol Hill and the White House from a new American Connection Project Broadband Coalition calling for a "robust federal investment in broadband internet connectivity." Letter (attached) signed by 40 ag, tech, and healthcare groups.
Bonnen, James T. (author / Michigan State University, East Lansing)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
unknown
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 101 Document Number: C08698
Notes:
In: James Hildreth, Katerine Lipton, Ken Clayton and Carl O'Connor , ed. Agriculture and Rural Areas Approaching the 21st Century; Challenges for Agricultural Economics. 452-483; Iowa State University Press
Online from publication. 3 pages., Report of USDA decision to suspend a report used to set wages for guest workers in the H-2A program in 2021, with examples of responses and implications.
