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Articles Tagged with ''Economic Research Service''

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NIFA employees vote to unionize

06/11/19 3:20 PM By Steve Davies
Facing relocation of their offices and jobs, employees of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture joined their USDA colleagues at the Economic Research Service by voting today to form a bargaining unit with the American Federation of Government Employees.
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Stacey Plaskett

Dems, GOP at odds over proposed ERS/NIFA moves

06/05/19 2:25 PM By Steve Davies
The Department of Agriculture has not made a compelling case for moving the Economic Research Service and National Institute of Food and Agriculture outside of Washington, D.C., two ag scientists and a farmer told a House Agriculture subcommittee Wednesday.
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Gale Buchanan

Opinion: Time for USDA and Agricultural Research Community to Unite to Tackle Food and Ag Challenges

05/29/19 11:40 AM By Gale Buchanan

The USDA proposal to relocate the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) and the Economic Research Service (ERS) out of the nation’s capital and to realign the ERS to report to the Office of the Chief Economist rather than to the Undersecretary for Research, Education, and Economics (REE) has created an unfortunate conflict between the US Department of Agriculture and the agricultural research community. While I am a retiree and speak only for myself, this is a fight that need not and should not be.


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Perdue at House Ag Approps hearing 4-9-19

Perdue signals flexibility on SNAP, defends agency moves

04/10/19 6:40 AM By Philip Brasher
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue suggested to lawmakers that his department could soften the definition of able-bodied adults who are subject to food stamp work requirements, but he declined to budge from a USDA reorganization plan to relocate two research agencies out of the nation's capital.
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