New Report Highlights Urgent Need for Higher Wages for California Farmworkers

New Report Highlights Urgent Need for Higher Wages for California Farmworkers

SANTA MARIA, Calif. — A new statewide report is shedding light on the growing need for higher wages for California farmworkers, pointing to serious impacts on health, financial stability, and family well-being. The report, titled “Beyond the Cycle of Survival: Wages, Health, and Justice for Farmworkers,” was presented Wednesday morning in Santa Maria. Researchers and advocates say it underscores how low pay in the agricultural industry is forcin…

Fresno advocates support $26/hour farmworker wage initiative

Four years after a landmark report from UC Merced painted a dire picture of health outcomes among California’s more than 900,000 farmworkers, a new study suggests not much has improved. If anything, matters seem to have only worsened since 2022, as the 21 farmworkers interviewed for the new study told researchers. As the prices of daily necessities have climbed while wages have stagnated, farmworkers said they’ve been forced to make even tougher…