Poorest

Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere with unemployment at 60% or worse. Most people make less than $800 per month.

Out of a population of 9 million, there's 150,000 trying to make a living as peanut farmers. The peanut industry supports an overall total of about 500,000 people. 

But this important part of the economy may soon be wounded . . by the American government. The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture plans to "dump" about a million pounds of our surplus peanuts there. 

If that happens, peanut farmers won't be able to sell the crop they spent time and money to produce so they will lose what they can't afford to lose. People employed in the industry will lose their jobs. It's why sixty aid groups have written an open letter to USDA and to USAID demanding cancellation of this disaster.

(cont'd tomorrow)