The U.S. Department of Agriculture has sent out long-awaited payments to minority farmers and others in need of aid, but some say it’s not enough to offset years of discrimination.
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Power up: Federal programs to bring energy improvements to Arkansas
One program will put at least $10 million into Arkansas’s electrical grid and another will fund solar arrays at eight businesses in rural Arkansas.
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Sanders, lawmakers visit Chicot Elementary to kick off School Breakfast Month
Feeding Arkansas’s children is a priority most everyone seems to agree on.
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USDA’s new plant hardiness maps ‘won’t change much’ for Arkansas growers, UA professor says
Scientists caution that the change in the USDA maps may be driven as much by data collection methods as it is by a warming climate.
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Call the hogs hotline: New number set up to handle wildlife ruckuses
Arkansas Game and Fish announced this week that they’ve teamed up with the United States Department of Agriculture on a new number to call for help when menacing wildlife threatens.
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LR lawyer pleads guilty in USDA fraud case UPDATE
Last man standing goes down.
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USDA to put $1 million to program to fight opioid use in Arkansas
Winrock International announced today that it, UAMS and Ozarka College will launch a program to prevent opioid and substance abuse in Northwest and North Central Arkansas. The program will be funded by a $998,834 investment by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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Two more get prison for feeding program fraud
Two more people got prison sentences today for defrauding the state-run program that uses federal money to provide meals to poor children.
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Former DHS employee gets 9 years for $9 million worth of food fraud
Federal Judge James Moody has sentenced Gladys Waits, 37, to nine years in federal prison for her role in defrauding more than $9 million in federal money sent to Arkansas to feed poor children.
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Arkansas hits big-time exposure with food fraud case
The Washington Post delves into the “staggering level” of fraud uncovered by a federal investigation of federally financed programs meant to serve meals to poor children in Arkansas.