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Jared Strong

Jared Strong

Jared Strong, senior reporter at the Iowa Capital Dispatch, has written about Iowans and the important issues that affect them for more than 15 years, previously for the Carroll Times Herald and the Des Moines Register. Iowa Capital Dispatch is part of States Newsroom, the nation’s largest state-focused nonprofit news organization.

Federal government pays $2 billion for farmer discrimination
By: - July 31, 2024

Tens of thousands of farmers or would-be farmers who say they suffered discrimination when they applied for assistance from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will get one-time payments that total about $2 billion from the federal government. “While this financial assistance is not compensation for anyone’s losses or pain endured, it is an acknowledgement,” U.S. […]