This one is about farmers and the government.
https://www.revealnews.org/episodes/losing-ground-rebroadcast-2/
Quality of life is impacted when people have had extra roadblocks to deal with.
"USDA and federal farm policy are largely responsible for driving black people out of farming almost entirely. Black farmers lost around 90 percent of the land they owned between 1910 and 1997, while white farmers lost only about 2 percent over the same period."
~ N. Rosenberg & B. Stucki
https://newfoodeconomy.org/usda-black-farmers-discrimination-tom-vilsack-reparations-civil-rights/
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