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DES MOINES, Iowa AP 鈥?The federal government has illegally broken a promise to pay off the debts of a group of Black farmers, according to a class-action lawsuit. The group hopes to put pressure on officials to keep their word and to restore funding that was dropped after a group of white farmers filed legal challenges arguing their exclusion was a violation of their constitutional rights.The lawsuit filed in October remains active even as the U.S. Department of Agriculture moves forward with聽another effort to help farmers聽in financial distress in addition to paying farmers who the agency discriminated against.John Boyd Jr., president of the National Black Farmers Association and one of four plaintiffs in the lawsuit, said that the new programs don ;t match the USDA earlier offer to pay off 120 percent of the debt of farmers who are socially disadvantaged.According to the lawsuit, this definition applies to more than 6,500 farmers who have tradition
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Christine Lagarde was nominated Wednesday to head the IMF. Photo by Dominique Charriau/Getty Images.So the synchronized French swim champ with accent-free English whom we interviewed last summer in Paris, Christine Lagarde, will run the IMF. What did we learn from that interview That she was a key architect of the European bail-out plan last year, a plan now in the process
yeezy of re-implementation. Back in July, I asked her, How serious is the threat to the world economy right now Spain, Greece, Eastern Europe, Portugal, all tremendously weak.Her response: I ;m always cautious, and I ;m always very attentive to the unknown risk, because I strongly believe that the risk is going to come from somewhere unexpected.Paul Solman: How bad is the threat now Christine Lagarde: What we have done for Europe at large I
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