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News Coverage
- 05/28/2020 SF Bay Area Indymedia: Dolores Huerta’s 90th Birthday Celebration for DHF COVID19 Relief Fund
- 05/27/2020 The Hill: Senate Democrat introduces bill to protect food supply
- 05/27/2020 Feedstuffs: Senate Democrats introduce bill to strengthen food supply chain
- 05/27/2020 U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry News Advisory: Ranking Member Stabenow Introduces Legislation to Protect America’s Food Supply
- 05/26/2020 News Channel 9: Rhea Co. farm leader says all of their nearly 200 employees have virus, only 3 symptomatic
- 05/21/2020 Forbes: New Outbreaks In Fruit And Vegetable Operations Threaten Farm Workers And Food Supply
- 05/20/2020 Bloomberg Law: Groups Grill EPA on PPE Shortage for Pesticide Work on Farms
- 05/14/2020 Los Angeles Times: Washington state allows bunk beds for farmworkers despite coronavirus risks
- 05/14/2020 Business Insider: Washington state issues emergency rule to protect farm workers from COVID-19. But worker advocates fear it won’t save many lives.
- 05/11/2020 NJ Spotlight: More Than Half of a South Jersey Farm’s Workers Infected With COVID-19, DOH Reports
- 05/11/2020 Phys.org: Poll finds broad support for farmworkers who labor through pandemic
- 05/08/2020 LA Times: Most California voters back coronavirus protections for undocumented farmworkers, poll finds
- 05/07/2020 One News Page: UFW helps deliver meals to Delano farm worker families
- 05/06/2020 KGET 17: World Central Kitchen And UFW Donates Drive Thru Meals To Field Workers in Delano
- 05/06/2020 The New York Times: A Former Farmworker on American Hypocrisy
- 05/05/2020 YakTriNews KAPP-KVEW: Farm workers’ unions fighting for ‘enforceable rules’ for workplace COVID-19 precautions
- 05/04/2020 New York Daily News: The New York The hands that feed us: Protect New York’s farmworkers from coronavirus, too
- 05/01/2020 Grist: Study: Rising temperatures will double the risk to farmworkers in the coming decades
- 04/30/2020 The New York Times: Why the People Harvesting Californians’ Food Can’t Afford It
- 04/30/2020 KPFA – 94.1FM: UFW President Teresa Romero on Farmworkers and COVID19
- 04/29/2020 KERO 23ABC News: UFW helps deliver 4,000 meals to farm worker families in Delano
- 04/29/2020 KERO 23ABC News: World Central Kitchen, farm worker movement to distribute meals for farm worker families
- 04/29/2020 Bloomberg: Front-Line Food Workers Agonize: Risk Illness on Job or Go Broke
- 04/29/2020 National Geographic: ‘I can be the person helping.’ On the frontlines with America’s essential workers
- 04/24/2020 Ventura County Star: Espinosa: COVID-19 impacts most vulnerable