Latest Breaking News On - சலினாக்கள் கலிஃபோர்னியன் - Page 15 : vimarsana.com
Llega Covid con fuerza en Yuma, Arizona
diario.mx - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from diario.mx Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Soluciones de Israel lideran el cultivo de verduras en interiores
aurora-israel.co.il - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from aurora-israel.co.il Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Dozens of congressional leaders signed a letter urging the USDA to prioritize funding for farmworker safety.
Credit: Photo by David Rodriguez, The Salinas Californian
Two farmworkers sit at the end of strawberry field rows for their lunch break in Watsonville. Author: Kate Cimini | CalMatters Updated: 12:43 PM PST January 14, 2021
SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Calif. Farmworkers lost out on up to $1.5 billion in grants and loans for COVID-19 safety needs after the USDA committed funds earmarked as such for a food box program.
The USDA announced on Jan. 4 that it planned to spend $1.5 billion in a fifth round of the Farmers to Families Food Box Program. It has yet to commit additional funding for farmworker safety.
Listen to the conversation here.
In an effort to assist farmworkers who test positive for COVID-19, California launched the Housing for the Harvest program. It provides free hotel rooms so farmworkers can self-isolate and not infect family members. But a recent investigation found that of the 800,000 farmworkers in California, only around 80 have utilized the program since it was announced in July. To learn more, Valley Edition Host Kathleen Schock spoke with the journalists behind that investigation, Jackie Botts, economic inequality journalist with Calmatters, Kate Cimini, with The Salinas Californian and Calmatter’s California Divide Project, and Georgia Gee, with the Documenting COVID-19 Project at Columbia University.
Photo by Gary Kazanjian and is republished here by permission.
In the first days of August, Fresno farmworker Brenda Yamileth, lined up for a COVID-19 test alongside her mother and brother. Feverish and headachy, she held her 10-month-old daughter. Soon, all four tested positive.
She quarantined with her baby in one bedroom of her Mendota house while her husband and 2½-year-old son slept in the other. Daughter Michelle cried nonstop, and Yamileth worried for the baby’s health. At the same time, she feared infecting her husband and son, steps away. Her husband developed a cough as she quarantined, but never got a test.
vimarsana © 2020. All Rights Reserved.