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- 10/06/2020 The Counter: “It’s especially cruel during a pandemic”: Minimum wage uncertain for seasonal farm workers after USDA axes labor report
- 10/03/2020 HuffPost: Trump Administration Plan Would Cut Pay For Essential Farm Workers
- 09/30/2020 Business Insider: Trump administration move could slash wages for over 200,000 farm workers
- 09/30/2020 Farmworker Justice: Trump Administration Cancels USDA Wage Survey; Tens of Thousands of Farmworkers Will Suffer Massive Wage Cuts
- 09/30/2020 Trump proposes cutting farm worker pay in the midst of a pandemic
- 09/28/2020 Public Integrity: Trump attacks them. COVID-19 threatens them. But immigrants keep the U.S. fed.
- 09/26/2020 San José Spotlight: San Jose legislator pushes for immigration reforms amid COVID-19
- 09/25/2020 Agri Pulse: Karen Ross: Undocumented farmworkers must get legal status
- 09/24/2020 Agri Pulse: Lawmakers told to use stimulus to legalize farmworkers
- 09/23/2020 ‘Undocumented immigrants deserve a path to legalization & citizenship that recognizes the essential role we play in this nation,’ farm worker urges House Judiciary Committee
- 09/16/2020 UFW backs Hickenlooper, a partner for farm workers earning equal rights to overtime pay and a legal immigration process
- 09/03/2020 Business Insider: About half of the farmworkers in the US don’t have legal status. They’re risking getting COVID-19 to supply our food.
- 09/01/2020 Capital Radio News: Undocumented With COVID-19: Many Face A Long Recovery, Largely On Their Own
- 08/31/2020 News 6 Idaho: Eight nonprofit organizations come together to raise $1 million to help undocumented workers
- 08/30/2020 NBC 5: Vermonters protest ICE and Homeland Security
- 08/24/2020 San Francisco Eater: As Wildfires Rage, a Bay Area Taco Truck Is Feeding Undocumented Farmworkers
- 08/10/2020 Crosscut: WA to create $40M fund for undocumented workers hurt by pandemic
- 08/09/2020 Saporta Report: The court has spoken, now we need permanent protections for Georgia Dreamers
- 07/22/2020 JEC Releases New Report on Cost of Gaps in Paid Sick Leave During the Coronavirus Crisis
- 07/19/2020 The Spokesman-Review: As COVID-19 strains U.S. agriculture, Newhouse says immigration reform more urgent than ever
- 06/24/2020 UFW backs Biden: ‘elections matter’ in protecting Dreamers, achieving immigration reform, farm worker overtime pay & prevention of heat deaths in the fields
- 06/23/2020 The Straits Times: Trump halts entry of some foreign workers, upsetting businesses
- 06/19/2020 The New Republic: America Owes More to Its “Essential” Immigrant Workers
- 06/18/2020 CBS News: Supreme Court blocks Trump effort to wind down DACA program
- 06/18/2020 Bloomberg: Supreme Court Stops ‘Capricious’ Trump Bid to Scrap Obama’s DACA