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  2. The farm worker visa program is broken. New Biden ... - AOL

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    Despite an increase from 79,000 workers in 2010 to 258,000 in 2019, farms are still short on workers and some farms needing year-round employees, like dairies, are barred from the program.

  3. Farm Workforce Modernization Act - Wikipedia

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    The Farm Workforce Modernization Act is a proposed United States law that would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for terms and conditions for nonimmigrant workers performing agricultural labor or services in the United States.

  4. New House GOP budget proposal revives Farm Bill extension and ...

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    A one-year extension of federal farm programs, around $30 billion in economic relief and an agreement that would increase sales of a higher blend of ethanol, called E15, were part of a bipartisan ...

  5. The bill, which is more than 1,500 pages long, would keep the government funded at current levels through March 14, buying time for the next Congress to finish its funding work for fiscal year 2025.

  6. Farmworkers in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Farmworkers in Fort Valley, Georgia in 2019. Farmworkers in the United States have unique demographics, wages, working conditions, organizing, and environmental aspects. . According to The National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health in Agricultural Safety, approximately 2,112,626 full-time workers were employed in production agriculture in the US in 2019 and approximately 1.4 to 2.1 ...

  7. United Farm Workers - Wikipedia

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    The United Farm Workers of America, or more commonly just United Farm Workers (UFW), is a labor union for farmworkers in the United States. It originated from the merger of two workers' rights organizations, the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) led by César Chávez, Dolores Huerta, and Gilbert Padilla and the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) led by organizer Larry Itliong.

  8. Sharice Davids: Let’s harvest unity. Bipartisanship can ...

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    The farm bill offers a chance to further advance the strides made by the bipartisan infrastructure law’s $65 billion investment in broadband, particularly benefiting rural communities.

  9. Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Workers Protection Act of ...

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    The Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (AWPA or MSPA) (public law 97-470) (January 14, 1983), codified at 29 U.S.C. §§ 1801-1872, is the main federal law that protects farm workers in the United States and repealed and replaced the Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act (P.L. 88-582).