Agriculture Deptartment Drops Wage Floor in H-2A Farmworker Program

Submitted by Elsewhere on 2020-Oct-01 Thu 20:06

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2020-Oct-01 Thu 20:06

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Mexican farm workers harvest celery in a field of Brawley, California, in the Imperial Valley, on January 31, 2017. Many of the farm workers expressed fears that they would not be able to continue working in the United States under the President Trump's administration. / AFP / Sandy Huffaker (Photo credit should read SANDY HUFFAKER/AFP via Getty Images)

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