Agribusiness
Missouri’s housing inspections for H-2A workers missed deficiencies for years
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The lax inspection process led to an incident in summer 2018 where workers lived in a former jail, a motel with bed bugs and a house with a leaking toilet.
Agribusiness
These farmworkers were forced to labor on empty stomachs
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During an incident in Kennett, Missouri, in summer 2018, H-2A workers labored through high temperatures while denied breakfast and with little access to water. Their legal status was supposed to protect them.
Under Trump, Wisconsin dairies struggle to keep immigrant workers
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DURAND, Wis. — Twenty-six-year-old Rosa Jiménez and her husband, Manuel, 36, used to do the grocery shopping together. They would take the kids and make a day of it. But, lately, Manuel goes alone. Read on in this new report from Wisconsin Public Radio.
Labor
Missouri couple paves way for American Dream
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Gabriel and Sara Ruiz, husband and wife, were neighbors who fell in love and moved from Michoacán, Mexico, to California in the early 1990s to work on farms with hopes of realizing the American Dream. They brought with them their two children, Gabriel Jr. and Maria.
Labor
Migrant worker finds home among Lexington’s orchards
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Mexico isn’t home anymore for Agustín Chavarria — Lexington, Missouri, is.
Labor
Couple finds a home, work in Missouri fields
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Newlyweds Alvaro Porras Loza and Maricruz Martinez Hernandez moved in early June from the Kansas City area to work the farm fields of New Haven, a town that hugs the banks of the Missouri River and stationed about an hour west of St. Louis.
Labor
Advocates ease fears, growing pains of Missouri’s migrant families
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While Latinos make up less than 4 percent of Missouri’s population, the number of Latino residents in the state grew nearly 80 percent between 2000 and 2010, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Labor
Still Harvesting Shame
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An investigation by In These Times and The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting reveals how today's migrant farmworkers are still living in deplorable housing reminiscent of "Harvest of Shame."