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For years, Massachusetts has led the minimum wage race in New England. That ends in 2024, when Connecticut's rate — now tied to inflation — goes from $15 an hour to $15.69.
In 2022, Housing America continued its sponsorship of the AZ Interagency Farmworkers Coalition scholarship program. That and held fundraising efforts for the Somerton High School.
HATFIELD — Longtime farmworkers and co-owners of Riquezas del Campos Farm, Audi Gonzalez and Marcelino Martinez have experienced firsthand the mistreatment people working on farms can endure, from long hours in the fields and no overtime pay to below...