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It’s one of the first programs of its kind in the country.
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A proposed bill would pay farmworkers who lost work due to dry or low-water conditions $1,000 a month for three years.
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She credits her background as the daughter of Mexican immigrant farm workers for driving her toward a strong education and the desire to break down health barriers within rural and minority communities.
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New report predicts rising heat and health declines in the San Joaquin Valley
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Every December, Catholic Latinos across the state honor the Virgen de Guadalupe. The celebration of Las Posadas commemorates the appearance of Mary, the mother of Jesus, to an indigenous man named Juan Diego in Mexico in 1531. Honoring that tradition was especially important this year for Firebaugh, a community that’s been hit hard during the pandemic.
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Looking back on the stories that defined 2021
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The film follows four cousins as they make their first visit to their family’s ancestral village in Mexico.
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State agencies are partnering with community organizations across the San Joaquin Valley to inform farm workers of their rights at work. They’re taking…
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While teaching a history course at Fresno State, professor Ethan Kytle stumbled upon the forgotten history of a farm labor crisis in 1942 that inspired…
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Like in so many places across the U.S., the coronavirus pandemic crept up on the San Joaquin Valley. Some of the region’s first official cases were linked…