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The report notes that 11.2 million older adults spent over 30% of their income on housing in 2021, and only 36.5% of eligible households received federal housing assistance.
The state must devise ways to ensure farmers can live off their labor, increase local markets, educate consumers and ensure they no longer spend a dollar for a 95-cent return.
Those who built connected farms changed their farms by extending the architectural style and order of the house to their barns. This was a truly radical development by New England farmers, and it is this characteristic, more than that of house and barn connection itself, that is one of the unique aspects of New England connected farm architecture."
Our values of freedom, autonomy, and market agency should mean that American farmers ought to be empowered with the tools and resources they need and make the choices only they know will work best ...
In 2015, about 2 billion people (slightly more than 25% of the world's population) in 500 million households living in rural areas of developing nations survive as "smallholder" farmers, working less than 2 hectares (5 acres) of land. [7] Around 98% of China's farmers work on small farms, and China accounts for around half of the total world ...
Farmers' suicides in the United States refers to the instances of American farmers taking their own lives, largely since the 1980s, partly due to their falling into debt, but as a larger mental-health crisis among U.S. agriculture workers. In the Midwest alone, over 1,500 farmers have taken their own lives since the 1980s. It mirrors a crisis ...
The farmers also want the government to provide pensions to elderly farmers of up to Rs 10,000 per month. Ms Kaur said these are very basic demands that the government has continued to ignore ...
As the older farmers retire, their children will most likely seek different career paths. [2] Tobacco farms would eventually be sold to their neighbours; this has a domino effect . [ 2 ] This domino effect ultimately results in fewer farmers having more acreage creating a further sense of economic inequality in the area.