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From Skeptic to Supporter: Why I’m Backing Tim McOsker
By Rick Thomas, Columnist
I didn’t think another San Pedro politician would care about the Harbor Gateway. I was wrong.
A few years back, I decided...
Thom Hartmann
Greg Palast
David Bacon
The Power Imbalance at the Root of the H-2A Farmworker Visa Program
What the Trump Administration also ruled was that growers can now charge workers for the housing that formerly they had to provide for free. In California, growers are going to be allowed to charge $3 an hour to farmworkers for the housing. Taken together with the cut in wages, that would mean a wage rate for H-2A farmworkers in California of $13.50 an hour.
Poverty and Deportees on the Streets in Tijuana
With photos and an interview with Laura Velasco
Dollars and Sense, November/December
https://www.dollarsandsense.org/poverty-and-deportees-on-the-streets-in-tijuana/
In the U.S. media, even in progressive media, we pay very little attention to...
Trump Drops the Hammer on Farmworkers
In addition, the new regulation allows growers to charge H-2A workers for housing, which they previously had to provide for free. In California, the allowed charge will be $3.00 per hour. The total cut will therefore be from $19.94 to $13.90 - over six dollars.
Life After Mother
Life After Mother, Five to Ten Years
Lyn Jensen - 0
About the time I closed that life chapter, my mother had a stroke, which started a chain of events that led to her death two years later and, once again, I was the only close relative to shoulder the burdens that accompanied the end of her life.