Sentences with phrase «farm workers during»

Detailing the lives of Mexican farm workers during the Great Depression, this indispensable instructional guide provides engaging lessons that will challenge students as they examine the award - winning YA novel, Esperanza Rising.

Cuomo, speaking at an unrelated event in the Adirondacks, says he's made some gains for farm workers during his administration, including raising the minimum wage for all workers in New York to $ 15 an hour downstate and $ 12.50 an hour upstate.

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Hundreds of thousands of Mexican immigrants, especially farm workers, were deported during the 1930s.

The faith - group programs, representing Protestant, Catholics, and Jews, have consistently provided documentaries, dramas, and discussions which dealt with issues almost never touched by commercial broadcasting: the economic factors behind nuclear armaments; the issues behind draft evasion (during the Vietnam War); the real causes of worldwide starvation; and the problems of people who are ignored almost completely by the media, such as the aging who can not live on their pensions, unwed mothers, farm workers who have no homes, undocumented aliens whom we wish to employ but not pay, and refugees we are sending back to certain death in their own countries.

Sen. Andrea Stewart - Cousins, right, speaks during a rally calling for farm workers rights on Wednesday, June 1, 2016, at the Capitol in Albany, N.Y. (Cindy Schultz / Times Union archive)

Farm safety educators use the chart during trainings, during which they instruct workers on everything from correct hand - washing practices how to identify a diseased crop before it infects the whole field.

From the line of bulldogs that American migrant workers brought with them, the American bulldog served to guard farms and catch large animals during hunts.

Artist Statement «I often listened to NPR during working and driving, and one time there was a story about the plight of migrant farm workers: The really hard work they have...

During World War II, Mr. Smith worked with migrant workers for the federal Farm Security Administration in Kern County, where he met and married June Meyers, a social worker who died in 1958.

Continuing its renewed focus on environmental justice issues, the EPA has announced a $ 25,000 grant to help educate farm workers throughout southern New Jersey about the risks of pesticide exposure and how to protect their health during field work.

Using data on the productivity of agricultural workers, along with information about environmental conditions that come from the California air monitoring network, they analyze the relationship between ozone concentrations during the typical workday and farm worker productivity.

ABlawg posts on the rights of farm and ranch workers were tabled in the legislature during the debate over Bill 6 by the leader of the Alberta Liberals, Dr David Swann (see Hansard, December 7, 2015), who has been a tireless advocate for the rights of these workers.

During his ten years with CRLA, Ramón served as a staff attorney, managing attorney, Director of CRLA's Migrant Farm Worker Project, and as a regional counsel.

Premium Audits are required of some Business Insurance policies and they are specifically necessary for State Farm ® Workers» Compensation and Contractors policies where your insurance is based on your payroll or total cost of the work you conduct during the policy period.