The green card solution.
Legislation pending in the Senate and backed by major growers of agricultural produce seeks to resolve difficulties that have bedeviled American agriculture and policymakers for years. More than half of all farm workers live below the poverty line, and the majority have no health insurance. Most o...
| Publicado en: | American Prospect Vol. 11; no. 3; pp. 32 - 38 |
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December 20 1999
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