migrant workers

Farmworkers in South Florida are supporting efforts to create safety standards, including heat provisions and treatment for heat illness, as climate change makes working conditions deadly for some.

Cal State San Bernardino’s Palm Desert campus and the local organization OneFuture Coachella Valley were awarded a five-year, $2.3 million grant to help migrant farmworkers, officials said today. The U.S. Department of Education’s College Assistance Migrant Program grant will focus on helping 50 students annually who are migrant/seasonal farmworkers, or their children stay in school through their first year...

From 2005 to 2020, U.S. employers around the country were ordered to pay more than $42.5 million in back wages to 69,000 workers who perform seasonal low-wage jobs on guest worker visas

The jobs that migrant farmworkers do every day feed the American population and are essential to the economy. But their contributions often go unacknowledged. Monica Ramirez, president and founder of Justice for Migrant Women, joined LX News Now to discuss their struggles with food insecurity, lack of childcare and dangerous conditions — all of which have been made worse during...

Mexican workers have confounded economists by sending home huge sums of money during the coronavirus pandemic

Gianna Nino-Tapias got a masters degree from Stanford University in epidemiology, but is now working with her family as a migrant farm worker after losing her job due to the coronavirus. She joined LX News to discuss her viral tweet and conditions for migrant workers during the pandemic.