The post The Dramatic Rise of Farm Labor Contractors Has Led to Rampant Abuses. Here’s Why Regulators Have Failed to Stop ...
Since our organization, the Family Farm Defenders (FFD), began in the early 1990s, we knew that the fate of food and farm systems around the world are inexorably linked to one another. We witnessed ...
(NewsNation) — Some GOP members are raising concerns about the consequences of deporting too many farm workers, as the Trump administration continues a focus on deportations and the “no amnesty” ...
The nation’s 2.6 million-plus farm workers – an estimated 1 million of them foreign-born– are a natural target of Donald Trump’s ever-escalating mass deportation campaign. About 45% of the total ...
On a farm in Phoenix, one person with an iPad can weed a field of vegetables that once required 20 workers on their hands and knees under a hot sun. The Duncan Family Farms employee controls the ...
A former Angola prisoner recounts years of forced field labor under extreme heat as a federal class-action lawsuit challenges ...
José Hernández, the first migrant farm worker to travel to space, visited a California school on Thursday to promote literacy at an event hosted by the San Benito County Office of Education. Hernández ...