Labor Department officials oversee state counterparts who are supposed to ensure states protect farmworkers from unsafe housing, wage theft and other abuses.
MOULTRIE, Ga. – A recent survey of farmworkers in Colquitt County conducted by the National Center for Farmworker Health showed a lack of health resources and limited living and working
Clinics wait to vaccinate farmworkers: Our hands are tied
CARLA K. JOHNSON, AP Medical Writer
March 10, 2021
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1of9FILE - In this May 12, 2020, file photo, farmworkers harvest beans during the coronavirus outbreak in Homestead, Fla. Many U.S. health centers that serve agricultural workers across the nation are receiving COVID-19 vaccine directly from the federal government in a program created by the Biden administration. But in some states, farmworkers are not yet in the priority groups authorized to receive the shots.Lynne Sladky/APShow MoreShow Less
2of9FILE - In this March 3, 2021, file photo, public health nurse Dyah Moore, right, and other health care workers prepare Moderna COVID-19 vaccines for farmworkers at a County of Santa Clara mobile vaccination clinic at Monterey Mushrooms, an agricultural employer under the United Farm Workers union contract, amid the coronavirus pandemic in Morgan Hill, Calif. In some California counties, vac