America Farm Workers Face Food Insecurity

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Investigative article in Grist covers challenges facing farm workers in the US including high food prices and low compensation.

https://grist.org/food-and-agriculture/farmworker-hunger-crisis-climate-inflation-grocery-costs/

“The people who feed America are going hungry:  
Climate change is escalating a national crisis, leaving farmworkers with empty plates and mounting costs” written by Ayurella Horn-Muller
Staff Writer

Including:  “Historically, hunger rates among farmworkers, as with other low-income communities, have been at their worst during the winter due to the inherent seasonality of a job that revolves around growing seasons. But climate change and inflation have made food insecurity a growing, year-round problem.”

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