Thread: California’s farm workers’ endless struggle 40

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Sour Grapes
California’s farm workers’ endless struggle 40 years later
by MARC COOPER

ARVIN, CALIFORNIA â€â€

Wages among California’s 700,000 farm workers, 96 percent of whom are Mexican or Central American, more than half of whom are undocumented, are at best stagnant, and by most reckonings are in decline.

WELCOME TO AMERICA!! How many Americans not on government payrolls have had a raise recently? How many of the millions of Americans working for minimum wage had a raise recently?

The downward-spiraling Mexican economy feverishly churns those waves to the degree that, at any moment, as many as 20 percent of California’s agricultural workers have been in the U.S. for less than a year.

IN US for less than a year = Illegal flooding their own illegal market.

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