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Legislation proposed Wednesday in the U.S. House of Representatives aims to give undocumented farmworkers more protections. The Farm Workforce…
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Let’s face it farmers are usually slow to change their practices for a couple reasons. Change usually comes with a high price tag – a new tractor can cost…
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A new book aims to document the stories of valley farmworkers through oral histories. It's the project of editor and independent journalist Gabriel…
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Dan Charles reports on agriculture for NPR. Over the past year he reported a series on farmworkers across the country. Recently he wrote a post on NPR's…
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Working outside in the heat is something many people in the Central Valley have to do on a daily basis. The hot weather is a concern especially for those…
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It’s a typical Sunday in the town of Mendota, west of Fresno. Here, in the cantaloupe capital of the world, the majority of residents are farmworkers. As…
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A new study suggests that the Central Valley’s extreme heat is linked with increasing levels of CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions. FM89’s Diana…
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Thousands of farmworkers travel all over the Central Valley on a daily basis to pick crops under some very hot weather. As FM89’s Diana Aguilera reports…
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New state and federal funding will provide relief for farmworkers hurt by California's drought. The US Department of Labor is providing 18 million…
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The Smithsonian Institution is honoring California labor activist Dolores Huerta with a special exhibit opening next week. The National Portrait Gallery’s…