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Seizing the TechHire Opportunity in Rural America

June 27, 2016 Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Jeffrey Zients, Director of the National Economic Council and Assistant to the President for Economic Policy

Cross-posted from the WhiteHouse.gov blog: There’s an exciting trend underway across the country. More and more, major companies are leaving offshore hubs and turning to rural communities in America for high-quality IT talent. In addition to a narrowing wage gap and higher quality of work in these...

Technology

Food Waste Can Have a Large Impact on Your Nitrogen Footprint

April 22, 2015 Rodney Vance, Intern, Division of Environmental Systems, National Institute of Food and Agriculture

April 22 marks the 45 th celebration of Earth Day, with its theme of “It’s our turn to lead.” The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) is a leader in its support of cutting-edge sustainable and organic agricultural research. The USDA estimated that 31...

Conservation Food and Nutrition
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