Farmer Ron Mueller checks a piglet on his farm, where he has struggled to find places to sell baby hogs in the wake of the coronavirus disease pandemic, in Cropsey, Illinois, U.S., June 18, 2020. Picture taken June 18, 2020. REUTERS/Nick Carey
Mueller’s dire choice between his pigs and paying the bills shows the indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on rural areas of America like Cropsey in central Illinois, which in general have been less hard hit by cases of the highly contagious coronavirus than metropolitan areas. Kenergy and other not-for-profit electric cooperatives serve rural areas that have already been buffeted by President Donald Trump’s trade wars.
The NRECA has lobbied the U.S. Congress to adopt legislation allowing cooperatives to refinance government loans at lower interest rates to ease the pain. A bill was introduced in the House and Senate on July 2 that would do just that. Niewold, 65, has low debts and says he should be able to weather the crisis, but he and EIEC’s CEO, Bob Hunzinger, both worry about the impact on younger farmers still paying off loans for land or equipment.“You’ll see farmhouses around here that have been lived in for over 100 years,” he said. “But next year, they might be empty.”
BasicIncome now please ... people need some money to pay their bills and keep the economy going.
Disgusting what we do to animals, despicable!
Blame the virus, not the politicians & unelected bureaucrats making the decisions for everyone else.
Handover corona criminal xi and his team to UN otherwise all your dual & expansion policies will be burnt with xi and his team.chinese democratic people should revolt all over community will hit beat and split china for the crime .
Don't believe this bullshit. Our leaders need to be better caretakers of our money, and how and where it is spent. We are a filthy rich nation, make no mistake.
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