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SOURCES:
"Biggest trade bailout payments went to Southern farms, GAO finds" by Ryan McCrimmon
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/16/biggest-trade-bailout-payments-went-to-southern-farms-gao-finds-416406

"Harvest of shame: Farmworkers face coronavirus disaster" by HELENA BOTTEMILLER EVICH, XIMENA BUSTILLO and LIZ CRAMPTON
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/08/farmworkers-coronavirus-disaster-409339

"USDA Market Facilitation Program: Information on Payments for 2019" by U.S Government Accountability Office.
https://www.gao.gov/assets/710/708942.pdf

"Small-Business Loans: Strip Clubs, Marijuana Stores Need Not Apply" by Bob Davis
https://www.wsj.com/articles/small-business-loans-strip-clubs-cannabis-shops-need-not-apply-11587573925

"5 Impacts Of COVID-19 On Cannabis Industry" by Lisa Day
https://www.anchoragepress.com/weed/5-impacts-of-covid-19-on-cannabis-industry/article_ed6eb870-d667-11ea-8798-9b75736b8aa3.html

"House overwhelmingly passes bipartisan spending deal to avert government shutdown" Erica Werner
https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/09/22/congress-white-house-shutdown-stimulus/

"Farmers Get Billions in Virus Aid, and Democrats Are Wary" by Sharon LaFraniere
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/07/us/politics/virus-trump-aid-farmers.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article

"COVID-19 likely spreading from people to animals and vise versa" by Mary Van Beusekom
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/09/covid-19-likely-spreading-people-animals-and-vice-versa

"In one Michigan county, almost half the COVID-19 cases are tied to farm outbreaks" Angie Jackson and Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, and Georgia Gee, Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, Columbia Journalism School
https://www.freep.com/in-depth/news/local/michigan/2020/09/22/migrant-farmworkers-covid-michigan/5793517002/

"Oregon farm workers experience broad COVID-19 pressures, new study reveals" by Emily Teel
https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2020/09/22/study-shows-oregon-farm-workers-experience-covid-19-vulnerability/5854369002/