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Native American Role Model Addresses USDA Employees about ‘Global Unity Through Diversity’

November 12, 2010 Janie Simms Hipp, Senior Advisor for Tribal Affairs to United States Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack

Earlier this week I was honored to participate in an event here at USDA that marked National American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month. Billy Mills, 1964 Olympic Gold Medalist addressed a capacity audience, sharing his life story and observations about how America and the world’s diversity...

Rural

An Alaska Housing Authority Names USDA Rural Development “Lender of the Year”

November 12, 2010 Wayne Maloney, USDA Office of Communications

USDA Rural Development has a long history of providing rural Americans with access to safe, sanitary and affordable housing. In interior Alaska, quality housing is a basic need. Temperatures regularly plunge far below zero, often to as cold as -60 F. Thanks to extra effort on the part of some...

Initiatives Rural

FSA Participa en Evento para la Contratación de Hispanos con Estudios Superiores

November 12, 2010 Brenda Farías, Directora Ejecutiva del Condado – Condados de Santa Bárbara/Ventura, CA, Coordinadora del Programa Hispano - Comité de Énfasis Especial y Extensión

La Agencia de Servicio Agrícola (“Farm Service Agency” o FSA, por sus siglas en inglés) se enorgullece de encabezar la marcha en la representación del USDA en un importante evento nacional a favor de la educación de los hispanos. La ocasión fue la convención anual de la Asociación Hispana de...

Spanish Rural

USDA Rural Development Participates at FSA Forum in Puerto Rico to Encourage Biofuel Production

November 12, 2010 Miguel A. Ramírez, Public Affairs Coordinator

On November 3, 2010 a Biofuels Round Table Forum was held at El Yunque National Rain Forest Park in the municipality of Río Grande, Puerto Rico.

Rural