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Title: FARMWORKER FACTS


1
FARMWORKER FACTS
  • Number of
  • farm workers in the
  • United States
  • 2 - 3 million

2
FARMWORKER FACTS
  • States with largest
  • farm worker populations
  • California, Texas, Florida, Washington, Oregon
  • and North Carolina

3
FARMWORKER FACTS
  • 80 of U.S.
  • farm workers
  • are male

4
FARMWORKER FACTS
  • The majority are married and living apart from
    their families

5
FARMWORKER FACTS
  • 75 of U.S. farm workers were born in Mexico
  • 53 are undocumented
  • 25 are U.S. citizens
  • 21 are legal permanent residents

6
FARMWORKER FACTS
  • Average annual income
  • 11,000 or 16,000 for a family

7
FARMWORKER FACTS
  • Most farm workers are paid piece rate wages,
    resulting in backbreaking work in stressful
    conditions

8
FARMWORKER FACTS
  • Farm work is the lowest paid job in the nation,
  • second only to
  • domestic labor

9
FARMWORKER FACTS
  • Less than 1 of farm workers use general
    assistance welfare
  • 2 use Social Security
  • Less than 15 receive Medicaid
  • The average grade of education completed is 6th
    grade 13 have completed high school, 13 less
    than 3 years of school

10
FARMWORKER FACTS
  • Farm work is one of the three most dangerous
    occupations
  • in the U.S.

11
FARMWORKER FACTS
  • Farm workers suffer some of the highest rates of
    exposures to toxic chemicals

12
FARMWORKER FACTS
  • Farm workers suffer
  • high rates of
  • skin disorders,
  • eye injuries,
  • heat stress, and
  • tuberculosis

13
FARMWORKER FACTS
  • Farm worker children have higher rates of
    pesticide exposure, malnutrition, and dental
    diseases

14
FARMWORKER FACTS
  • Poor housing conditions lead to lead poisoning,
    respiratory illnesses, ear infections and
    diarrhea

15
FARMWORKER FACTS
  • Only 10 of farm workers have health insurance

16
FARMWORKER FACTS
  • Farm workers were NOT included in the
  • National Labor
  • Relations Act
  • of 1935 which gave other workers the
  • right to organize

17
FARMWORKER FACTS
  • Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, only large
    farms are required to pay farm workers the
  • minimum wage

18
FARMWORKER FACTS
  • Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, employers are
    NOT required to pay overtime to farm workers

19
FARMWORKER FACTS
  • Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, the minimum
    age for
  • farm work is 12, not 16 as in most other jobs

20
FARMWORKER FACTS
  • H2A or guestworker programs undermine protections
    for farm workers already in the U.S. the
    current immigration climate is calling for an
    increasing erosion of the protections for
  • farm workers

21
  • SUPPORT JUSTICE FOR
  • FARM WORKERS IN THE
  • UNITED STATES

22
  • Produced by
  • FARMWORKER ASSOCIATION OF FLORIDA
  • www.floridafarmworkers.org
  • 407-886-5151
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