Results for keyword: farmworkers
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A literary organization tackles California gang violence
The National Steinbeck Center in Salinas, Calif., is honoring the Nobel Prize-winning author by helping at-risk youth in the community he wrote about.
by Taylor Wiles, May 01, 2012 -
Aspiring farmers find creative ways to succeed
Sarahlee Lawrence and Amy Ridout are part of a wave of young farmers determined to remake the American food system.
by Sarah Gilman, Nov 27, 2011 -
Farm incubators help would-be farmers succeed on their own
Viva Farms is a "farm incubator" in Washington's Skagit Valley that helps aspiring cash-poor farmers like Nelida Martinez start and successfully operate their own businesses.
by Jennifer Langston, Nov 28, 2011 -
Bordering on injustice
Jimmy Santiago Baca's novel A Glass of Water compassionately describes the lives of Mexican immigrants.
by Don Waters, Sep 13, 2009 -
The persistence of a golden time in the West
Seventy years after the publication of Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, migrant workers still roam the West, eking out a tough living in its orchards and farm fields.
by David Frey , Apr 24, 2009 -
The fruits of their labor
In Delta County, Colorado, a pilot program sent prisoners to work on three farms during the summer of 2008.
by Marty Durlin, Andrea Appleton, Jay Canode and Emily Steinmetz, Oct 10, 2008 -
Plowing under the fields of shame
Rebecca Clarren talks to migrant farmworker women about a threat they face every day in the fields: sexual harassment and assault by coworkers and bosses.
by Rebecca Clarren, Apr 14, 2008 -
Fear in the Valley
Following a high-profile raid by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, undocumented farmworkers in Colorado’s San Luis Valley live in fear
by Eric Mack, Jul 23, 2007 -
The red, white and blue of ‘red or green?’
New Mexico’s traditional chile industry faces hot competition from global producers
by Laura Paskus, Jun 25, 2007 -
Hope
After 16 years of living in the shadows in Pasco, Wash., Wendy and Erendira Santana finally win legal residency
by Melissa Hoyos, May 15, 2006






