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News Coverage
- 03/24/2020 LA Magazine: Farm Workers Are Still in the Fields as the Pandemic Spreads
- 03/23/2020 The River Newsroom: New York Farmworkers Finally Have Labor Rights, But the Fight Isn’t Over
- 03/23/2020 Idaho Press: Farmworkers can’t work from home. What does the coronavirus outbreak mean for Idaho’s agriculture industry?
- 03/23/2020 LatinLive: Unsung Heroes: Mexican Laborers Still Working Hard In The Fields, Providing Our Food
- 03/22/2020 Tehachapi News: Exemption allows farmwork despite lockdown
- 03/21/2020 The Sacramento Bee: Immigrant farmworkers feed us despite the coronavirus pandemic. They deserve better
- 03/20/2020 Sacramento Bee: Farmworkers pick our food. Shouldn’t we care about their health and coronavirus exposure?
- 03/19/2020 Reuters: U.S. seeks option to allow Mexico guest workers on farms as visas slowed
- 03/19/2020 The Hill: DHS issues guidelines defining critical jobs during the coronavirus crisis
- 03/19/2020 NPR: COVID-19 Threatens Food Supply Chain As Farms Worry About Workers Falling Ill
- 03/19/2020 Politico: Coronavirus stress-tests the food supply network
- 03/19/2020 Capital Press: H-2A cutoff averted as virus adds to labor worries
- 03/19/2020 The Californian- Salinas:Ag workers exempted from COVID-19 shelter in place mandate, advocates fear for health
- 03/19/2020 Monterey Herald & Mercury News: COVID-19: Agriculture exempt from shelter in place
- 03/19/2020 Los Angeles Times: Will coronavirus affect food supply? First problem: A possible shortage of workers
- 03/19/2020 Fresno Bee: Agriculture and coronavirus: No major disruption in San Joaquin Valley as of yet
- 03/19/2020 NBCNews: U.S. restricts visas for farmworkers, raising concerns about food supply
- 03/18/2020 Monterey Herald: Agriculture exempt from shelter in place. Farmworkers stay on the job.
- 03/18/2020 The Counter: Pre-existing conditions, no sick leave and health insurance put farm workers at increased coronavirus risk
- 03/18/2020 Bloomberg.com: Global Harvests at Risk With Travel Limits Squeezing Labor
- 03/17/2020 BloombergQuint: Global Food Harvests at Risk With Travel Limits Squeezing Labor
- 03/17/2020 Vida en el Valley: UFW sends open letter to the agricultural industry asking to protect farmworkers during the Coronavirus crisis
- 03/17/2020 Capital Press: Coronavirus puts pressure on farm labor picture
- 03/17/2020 The Packer: Coronavirus spurs concerns for farmworkers
- 03/17/2020 Fusion: Farm workers are concerned about the spread of coronavirus