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If marijuana becomes fully legal and taxable, it won't be the first time authorities have learned that it's easier - and more profitable - to manage vice than to try to eliminate it.
by Sarah Gilman,
Aug 07, 2011
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"Farmworker Reality Tours" teach citizens about the lives of California's migrant farmworkers.
by Stephanie Paige Ogburn,
Oct 31, 2010
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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
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Small Mexican farming towns such as Francisco Villa in
Sonora are emptied of their young men when the lack of good-paying
local jobs sends them north of the border
by Michael Marizco,
May 15, 2006
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In Fields That Dream: A Journey to the Roots of
Our Food, Jenny Kurzweil illustrates how agricultural
injustices can be combated by purchasing food from socially
conscious local producers
by Annie Dawid,
Mar 20, 2006
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The Western Growers Association says its farmers need
another 20,000 workers to harvest this winter’s crop, and
President Bush endorses the idea of a guest-worker program to make
it easier for migrant workers in the U.S.
by Tim Westby,
Feb 20, 2006
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In Yakima County, Wash., the California-based labor
contractor Global Horizons is stirring up controversy among local
Latino farmworkers by bringing in hundreds of guest workers from
Thailand to pick fruit
by Tony Barboza,
Sep 19, 2005
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The problem of gang violence in Salt Lake City offers a
disturbing glimpse into the conflicted soul of Utah and the rest of
the rapidly growing West
by Greg Hanscom,
Aug 08, 2005
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In The Conquest of Bread, Richard
Walker takes a sweeping, skeptical look at the history of
agriculture in California
by Matt Jenkins,
Apr 18, 2005
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In his book, The Devil’s Highway,
Luis Alberto Urrea tells the tragic story of a group of poor
immigrants who tried to get to a better life, and died in the
Arizona desert
by Ryan Slattery,
Aug 30, 2004
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