{"id":336763,"date":"2010-02-18T18:43:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T23:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f24\/statement-president-settlement-black-farmers-lawsuit-against-usd-39639\/"},"modified":"2010-02-18T18:43:06","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T23:43:06","slug":"statement-by-the-president-on-the-settlement-in-the-black-farmers-lawsuit-against-usd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/336763","title":{"rendered":"Statement by the President on the Settlement in the Black Farmers Lawsuit against USD"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>02.18.10 12:51 PM<\/p>\n<p>&amp;ldquo;My Administration is dedicated to ensuring that federal agencies treat all our citizens fairly, and the settlement in the Pigford case reflects that commitment.  I applaud Secretary Vilsack for his efforts to modernize operations at the USDA, as well as the work of the Justice Department in bringing these long-ignored claims of African American farmers to a rightful conclusion.  I look forward to a swift resolution to this issue, so that the families affected can move on with their lives.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/statement-president-settlement-black-farmers-lawsuit-against-usda\" >White House.gov Press Office Feed<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>02.18.10 12:51 PM &amp;ldquo;My Administration is dedicated to ensuring that federal agencies treat all our citizens fairly, and the settlement in the Pigford case reflects that commitment. I applaud Secretary Vilsack for his efforts to modernize operations at the USDA, as well as the work of the Justice Department in bringing these long-ignored claims of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5310,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}