{"id":668911,"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.com\/index\/668911","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":3489,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2O0T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}