Hired Farmworkers Continue to Have Low Earnings and Educational Levels
Author: Runyan, Jack L.
Date Published: 1995
Article that provides information on schooling, earnings, ethnicity, age, and labor patterns of migrant farmworkers. Census data reveal that during the period from 1990 to 1993, the number of hired farmworkers declined; farmworkers were likely to be young, male, and Hispanic, and to have only a limited education; over half of farmworkers had not graduated from high school; and farmworkers' earnings were significantly lower when compared to other workers. Includes map of recent changes in farm labor expenditures
Date Published: 1995
Article that provides information on schooling, earnings, ethnicity, age, and labor patterns of migrant farmworkers. Census data reveal that during the period from 1990 to 1993, the number of hired farmworkers declined; farmworkers were likely to be young, male, and Hispanic, and to have only a limited education; over half of farmworkers had not graduated from high school; and farmworkers' earnings were significantly lower when compared to other workers. Includes map of recent changes in farm labor expenditures
