Federal MSFW Assistance Programs, FY08 Appropriations


UI-Covered Agricultural Employment, 2005


California Farm Sales, 2004-2006 ($ bil)


H-2A Jobs Certified (FY06) and Farm Labor Expenditures (2002)


Immigration and Ag Conference
We are pleased to announce a conference on June 13-14, 2007 on Immigration Reform: Implications for Farmers, Farm Workers, and Communities in

Employment and Earnings of US Farm and Nonfarm Workers, 1990-2006


Average Weekly Wages of California Agricultural and Construction Workers, 2001-2005


California: Monthly Farm Worker Employment, 2002-2006


Average Hourly Earnings of CA Farm Workers, 02-06


Average Earnings, Farm and Nonfarm Workers, 1970-2005 ($/hr)


Unauthorized Share of Workers by Occupation, March 2005


Unauthorized Share of Workers by Occupation, March 2005


The New Rural Poverty
We are pleased to announce the publication of The New Rural Poverty: Agriculture and Immigration in California. 2006. Urban Institute Press

Average Hourly Earnings of CA Farm Workers, 2002004 ($/hour)


Legal and Unauthorized Immigration, Annual Averages, 1980-2004


Authorized and Unauthorized US Crop Workers, 1989-2002


Unauthorized Share of Workers, by State, 2001


Average Employment in US Agriculture, 1910-2000


Migration from Rural Mexico to US and Mexican Farms, 1996-2002


Mexican Seasonal Farmworkers in Canada


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We are pleased to announce two conferences at UC-Davis open to the public. On Thursday, September 30, 2004, " Regulating Farm Labor Relations: The

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RURAL

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California: San Joaquin Valley, Refugees California had a labor force of 17.5 million in 2003, including 16.3 million employed workers and 1.2

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California: Housing, Budget Housing. The San Joaquin Valley is attracting "housing equity refugees" from the Bay Area and southern California,

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Migrants, Meat and Poultry Laotian immigrants are reportedly buying small poultry farms in the southeastern US, including 75 who bought farms in

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Census, Welfare California adult recipients of cash assistance under CalWORKS (the name for TANF in California) began reaching their five-year

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FARM

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Wages, CLRA, Productivity FELS (www.fels.org) reported that its farm employer-members paid an average $7.70 an hour to entry-level general

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UFW Series, Unions The Bakersfield Californian ran a series of articles on the UFW in May 2004 (www.bakersfield.com/special/ufw/). The UFW's

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Northwest Washington. Washington plans to spend $2.8 million to build and operate seasonal housing for migrant farm workers in the Wenatchee

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Florida: Laws, Trafficking, Tomatoes Florida in May 2004 revived the Florida Agricultural Workers Safety Act (FAWS), which expired in 1998. HB

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Northeast. Midwest The Justice for Farmworkers Campaign marched to Albany in May 2004 to press for state Senate approval of the Farmworkers Fair

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Farm Worker Services, Data For the past three years, President Bush has proposed eliminating the National Farmworker Jobs Program, or NFJP, which

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AgJOBS Setback The Agricultural Job Opportunity, Benefits, and Security Act (AgJOBS) was not attached to must-pass bills in the Senate in July

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H-2A, H-2B Programs The North Carolina Growers Association, headed by Stan Eury, brings 8,500 H-2A workers from Mexico to the US each year. Most

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Mexico-Canada Guest Workers The Commonwealth Caribbean (1966) and Mexican (1974) Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP) admits foreign

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Britain, Russia UK. British farmers employ over 25,000 mostly Eastern European workers to harvest and pack fruits and vegetables, and disputes

Border, Interior Enforcement
Border. Apprehensions of Mexicans just inside the US border totaled 1.1 million in FY03, and are on track to top 1.2 million in FY04; there were

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California, US Agriculture The Giannini Foundation sponsored a conference on May 28, 2004 to discuss a new 12-chapter book, California

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Water and Wine California farmers, who use about 80 percent of the state's storable or developed water, have been getting more efficient in water

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Subsidies, GMOs, Obesity The OECD reported that farmers in rich countries received $257 billion in subsidies and payments in 2003, making

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Fisheries Every year, about $55 billion in fish products is traded internationally, including a third from developing countries. Fisheries employ

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Coca, Sugar, Brazil Coca. Colombia had a peak 400,000 acres of coca in 2001, but acreage has since plunged by 80,000 because of US-financed coca

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Schlosser and Crister Writer Eric Schlosser, author of a 1995 Atlantic article on strawberry pickers and Fast Food Nation, is back with a book

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Dynamics of Hired Farm Labor This four-part, 18-chapter book includes papers presented at a conference in October 1999. The papers, written by

Unauthorized foreigners in the US, 1980-2000


California Total and Farm Employment, 1983-85=100