Massachusetts is running its agricultural economy on the backs of seasonal and migrant farmworkers, depriving most of them of a fair minimum wage, overtime and rest breaks. We are keeping the people whose backbreaking labor brings us our famed asparagus, apples, cranberries, corn, milk, yogurt and cheese in severe poverty.
Massachusetts allows farmworkers to be paid $8 an hour – 47% of the state’s $15 an hour minimum wage for every other worker. These workers — very often they are whole families,…
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