The northern plains farm economy remains in deep crisis
Evidence
In 1998, almost 75 percent of North Dakota farmers receiving Farmers’ Home Administration loans were in default. There is, by any measure, a crisis that does not seem to subside. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 788
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to ch19’s claim that the Great Plains cattle and monoculture economy is failing — same structural diagnosis. — connects to: The Great Plains cattle and monoculture economy is failing — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 780; Sixty percent annual moneylending interest remains normal for desperate farmers today — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 60
- recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
Broader Connections
- Sixty percent annual moneylending interest remains normal for desperate farmers today
#corroborates(0.82) — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 60