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Migrant farmworkers in US deemed essential — but lack basic protections

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Migrant farmworkers tend to work low-paying jobs. Few, if any, have benefits, and many are undocumented. These factors make them “uniquely vulnerable to the pandemic,” says Marc Grossman of United Farm Workers of America.

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‘A classic tale of human greed’: California caregivers earn as little as $2 an hour

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These caregivers work in conditions ‘akin to modern-day slavery.’ In California, wage theft is ‘rampant.’

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