Current：Home > StocksThe problems with the US's farm worker program -AssetTrainer
The problems with the US's farm worker program
View
Date：2025-04-25 08:49:53
Over the years, U.S. agriculture has grown increasingly dependent on the H-2A Guest Worker program to bring in foreign workers to harvest crops. H2A is a vestige of a U.S. and Mexican policy called the Bracero Program, which ended in the 1960s. Today on the show, why farmers and farm worker advocates are calling for more scrutiny of the current-day visa program, which has been dogged by concerns about worker exploitation and safety.
Related Episodes:
Farm Jobs Friday (Apple Podcasts / Spotify)
For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org.
Music by Drop Electric. Find us: TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Newsletter.
veryGood！ (6269)
Related
- The Daily Money: Spending more on holiday travel?
- Man charged with cyberstalking ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend while posing as different ex
- Syria protests spurred by economic misery stir memories of the 2011 anti-government uprising
- House Republicans move closer to impeachment inquiry
- 'Most Whopper
- Below Deck Down Under Loses Another Crewmember After Heartbreaking Firing
- Florida braces for 'extremely dangerous' storm as Hurricane Idalia closes in: Live updates
- 8 U.S. Marines in Australian hospital after Osprey crash that killed 3
- 'No Good Deed': Who's the killer in the Netflix comedy? And will there be a Season 2?
- Matthew Stafford feels like he 'can't connect' with young Rams teammates, wife Kelly says
Ranking
- South Korea's acting president moves to reassure allies, calm markets after Yoon impeachment
- Florida Gulf Coast drivers warned of contaminated gas as Tropical Storm Idalia bears down
- 'Frightening and shocking': Some Black Americans fear violence after Jacksonville Dollar General shooting
- A rare look at a draft of Martin Luther King Jr.'s historic I Have a Dream speech
- New Mexico governor seeks funding to recycle fracking water, expand preschool, treat mental health
- After lots of hype, West Point treasure box opening yields no bombshells, just silt
- Dolly Parton Spills the Tea on Why She Turned Down Royal Invite From Kate Middleton
- 'Big wave:' College tennis has become a legitimate path to the pro level
Recommendation
Tarte Shape Tape Concealer Sells Once Every 4 Seconds: Get 50% Off Before It's Gone
Loch Ness monster hunters join largest search of Scottish lake in 50 years
Job vacancies, quits plunge in July in stark sign of cooling trend in the US job market
One faculty member dead following shooting and hours-long lockdown at UNC Chapel Hill
How to watch new prequel series 'Dexter: Original Sin': Premiere date, cast, streaming
There's a labor shortage in the U.S. Why is it so hard for migrants to legally work?
'Frightening and shocking': Some Black Americans fear violence after Jacksonville Dollar General shooting
Peter Navarro says Trump asserted privilege over testimony during Jan. 6 committee investigation