USDA secretary comments on job move during tour of Raleigh nonprofit

The Inter-Faith Food Shuttle, located on Blair Drive in Raleigh, is a nonprofit that recovers and distributes 6 million pounds of food each year while teaching people self-sufficiency skills, including culinary job skills, shopping and cooking healthy on a budget and how to grow food.

Perdue was given a guided tour of the entire facility. After the tour, he commented to WRAL News about how hard the staff work at the Inter-faith Food Shuttle.

"It's impressive," Perdue said. "I am very delighted that North Carolina and the community of Raleigh, particularly, have supported this organization. Our motto at USDA is to do right and feed everyone, and this is part of that last mile."

"Thankfully, finally, we have a disaster bill that will help the producers there that lost a lot of things," he said. "We look forward to implementing that in a fair way, and we'll be taking applications to identify where the real losses are."

Inter-faith Food Shuttle feeding Wake County's young

Perdue said Tuesday that he was in North Carolina for a site visit, and he said the decision should be announced in days or weeks instead of months.

"You've got a great quality of life, you've got Research Triangle Park, you've got universities and academics, and it is just a great place to live," Perdue said. "We're looking for data centers, and you have high tech situations here."

Perdue ended the conversation there, reaffirming that a final decision on a site had not been made.