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Recovery Act, Helping Put Food on The Table, Creating Jobs and Improving Access to Medical Care

March 04, 2010

Deputy Agriculture Secretary Kathleen Merrigan visited the Utah Food Bank in Salt Lake City today, where she took a tour of the facility and helped assemble meal packets with USDA foods. Merrigan highlighted the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), and the ARRA funding that Utah Food Bank...

Initiatives Rural

Mississippi Hosts A Recovery Act Broadband Workshop-Five Counties to Receive Broadband Service

March 04, 2010

With much of Mississippi located in rural areas and many of those rural areas lacking broadband access, it should be no surprise when USDA Rural Development’s Mississippi team chose to take extra initiative to make sure that Mississippi’s rural cities and counties take full advantage of the...

Initiatives Rural Technology

Ugandan Dairy Cooperatives Quadruple Sales and Create Jobs with Help from the Food for Progress Program

March 02, 2010

Agriculture Secretary Vilsack today announced that USDA will donate more than $145 million in international assistance under the Food for Progress Program in fiscal year 2010. This figure will benefit more than 3.4 million people in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East by providing access...

Food and Nutrition Rural

National Roundtable on Ongoing Opportunities for Latinos in Natural Resources at USDA

February 24, 2010 acampbell

On Tuesday, February 23, 2010, USDA hosted a National Roundtable on Ongoing Opportunities for Latinos in Natural Resources at USDA in Washington, D.C.

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Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan Tours Community Center, Meets with Workers

February 19, 2010

A warm winter day greeted USDA Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan as she visited the high desert community of Acoma Pueblo in New Mexico. Chandler Sanchez the Governor of Acoma Pueblo gave the Deputy Secretary a personal tour of the new $12-million dollar community center which is currently under...

Initiatives

New York Economic Development Forum Draws an Overflow Crowd

February 18, 2010

USDA Rural Development and the Farm Services Agency sponsored the Rural New York Economic Development Forum earlier this month in Virgil, N.Y. we had an audience of about 60 business, government and economic development leaders.

Rural

USDA Administrator Says to New Mexico, “Your Business is Our Business and Our Business is Your Business.”

February 16, 2010

New Mexico State Director Terry Brunner welcomed USDA Rural Development Administrator of Business and Cooperative Programs Judy Canales to Albuquerque earlier this month to kick off a two day training session for Rural Development staff and lenders from across the state.

Initiatives USDA Results Rural

USDA Sponsored Forums In Alaska Draw Substantial Public Interest

February 05, 2010

We wrapped up the final of four USDA-led jobs forums Monday in Anchorage. As in Fairbanks, Kotzebue and Juneau, area leaders joined with Alaskans from all walks to life to provide input on what works and what doesn’t work when it comes to job creation and retention, especially in rural Alaska.

USDA Results

Central Oregon Residents Poised and Ready for Green Jobs and Renewable Energy at USDA Jobs Forum in Bend

February 04, 2010

Bend, Oregon – Panels of economic experts, elected officials, community leaders and state agencies once again presented information in conjunction with Farm Service Agency (FSA) and Rural Development (RD) for a jointly hosted USDA Forum on Jobs & Economic Growth on January 28.

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