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i think it is a wonderful idea to have these microloans in micro grants available to meet the student where they are. the reality is that $200 or $300 and make a difference. it is sometimes hard for us to recognize. it when you have an annual household income that you're not getting from a bank or relative, it can be a cost saver for the tax payer because students can cross the finish line. >> i am trained by nature to be skeptical. program sounds very interesting and a lot of the component seem to be based on research. thisld be concerned that program is not necessarily one that could at all. towe said here, there needs be targeting involved and some reflection of what students are needed. in addition, it seems like the engagement nature of this program is something that would need to be shored up to make sure the students that needed it most are the ones participating in the success centers. they work when students attend. solution, there has been research that suggests you can generate the desirable so comes that you want, pulling in behavioral concepts and being privy to those inc

going into organic research coming to organic support, into crop insurance products, into loans, microloans, storage loans, technical resistance to organic producers. the reality with organic as it represents about 1% of the landmass of the u.s. dedicated, roughly 4% to 5% of sales. it's a relatively small amount of agriculture. it's going to take a while to get up to scale, to get the kind of efficiencies perhaps in terms of costs you see in other forms of agriculture. the challenge is not to pit forms of agriculture against each other. the challenge is to figure out ways in which folks can have access and make a choice. one thing we have done is we've taken the ebt card, the electronic benefit transfer card for snap, the food stamp card, and we said it shouldn't just be redeemable in grocery stores. or convenience stores. it ought to be redeemable at farmers markets. i'm proud of the fact that this administration, over 6000 of the 8500 farmers markets now take ebt cards. that provides access to fruits and vegetables. we also have teamed up with a number of foundations to create incentives