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A new grant from Kaiser Permanente will help pay for heat safety supplies for farmworkers in the Fresno-Madera area.
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Undocumented immigrants don’t currently qualify for the state’s food assistance programs. But on Monday, Governor Gavin Newsom proposed spending about 35 million dollars to expand these benefits to undocumented people age 55 and older.
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On this week’s Valley Edition: Addressing safety concerns for Fresno’s unhoused community after a deadly attack in the city’s Tower District. Listen to this story and more in the podcast above.
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State law now requires some farmers to pay their workers overtime after 8 hours a day or 40 hours a week. Farmworker advocates are celebrating this change, but it’s also created some unintended consequences.
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H2-A farmworkers will receive a wage increase in 2022 following the release of a national labor survey from the USDA.
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Farmworkers in the San Joaquin Valley are more likely to get COVID-19 than in other service industries. They’re also facing job losses, according to a new…
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A federal judge in San Francisco struck down a First Amendment lawsuit this week that argued Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained a…
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Widely-watched, heavily-lobbied legislation that would allow California farm workers to receive overtime pay more quickly did not come up for a vote…
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This week on Valley Edition we look at the topics of food, drought, farming, policing and beer. First, Lesley McClurg reports on animal welfare conditions…