sarah vogel Archives - People's History in Texas https://peopleshistoryintexas.org/uncategorized/sarah-vogel/ Thu, 27 Apr 2023 02:19:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.6 https://peopleshistoryintexas.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-logo-32x32.png sarah vogel Archives - People's History in Texas https://peopleshistoryintexas.org/uncategorized/sarah-vogel/ 32 32 SARAH VOGEL THE FARMER’S LAWYER https://peopleshistoryintexas.org/1410-2/ https://peopleshistoryintexas.org/1410-2/#respond Tue, 11 Jan 2022 19:09:39 +0000 https://peopleshistoryintexas.org/?p=1410 x SINGLE MOM LAWYER TAKES DOWN THE USDA The midwest farm sector in the 1980s experienced the worst crisis since the Great Depression.  Some of downturn was due to bad weather and some of it was general economic conditions.  Most of the destruction was caused by Ronald Reagan and his free-market presidency.  Reagan’s minions deliberately dismantled the agricultural financial support […]

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]]> https://peopleshistoryintexas.org/1410-2/feed/ 0 Sarah and the Two Jims https://peopleshistoryintexas.org/sarah-and-the-two-jims/ Sat, 06 Nov 2021 21:02:08 +0000 https://peopleshistoryintexas.org/?p=1372 The 1980s were hard times for agriculture, the worst hard times since the Great Depression. When you look at the raw data, it is truly staggering.  Real U.S. net farm income fell over 40% from the  early 1970s to early 1980s.  Well over a quarter of a million farms were lost in the 1980s. Those lost farms were overwhelmingly family […]

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