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‘Treated as expendable’: Migrant farmworkers fall through gaps in the rural South’s patchwork health system

‘Treated as expendable’: Migrant farmworkers fall through gaps in the rural South’s patchwork health system

The health care system and workplace safety regulations weren’t set up to help the people who harvest our food. The pandemic has only deepened the problem.

by Timothy Pratt October 7, 2020January 14, 2022

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