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Workers harvest artichokes at Ocean Mist Farms, Castroville, CA. “Complaining that people don’t want to work because they could make more on unemployment is a funny way of admitting that you pay poverty wages.” This sentiment is circulating on the Internet these days. It responds to widespread claims that extended unemployment benefits, notably the federal bonus of $300 a week, are causing a labor shortage in the retail and restaurant industries (see, for example here) and U.S. jobless claims fall to 473K as more GOP governors bar aid. There appears to be some truth to these claims. In an email to me, Philip L. Martin, a professor at the University of California specializing in farm labor, writes regarding the labor shortage in the restaurant industry, “This may be a case of fears of covid + the disincentives of UI [unemployment interest] fed and state.” ....
Blueprints Edition Date: March 2021 To sum up the future perspective, labor costs for growing fruits and vegetables in the United States are likely to increase. Large-scale mechanization will probably occur over the next decade, but it’s not here yet. The biggest issue in agricultural labor now is legislation and supply-and-demand. Current immigration regulations block the free movement of temporary and seasonal workers from Mexico and Central America. The federal government has tried numerous times over the past 75 years to create or at any rate permit a feasible solution to this problem but has failed to do so. With a “transitioning Congress,” as Philip L. Martin, a professor at the University of California at Davis, puts it, it may be possible to create an immigration bill that would allow undocumented laborers to work in the industry. ....