Stephen Colbert puts food on the nation’s table

Last night on the Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert interviewed Zoe Lofgren about the lives and work of migrant farmworkers. Lofgren is the chair of the Subcommittee on Immigration in the House of Representatives and was a great sport throughout the Colbert filming.

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Stephen Colbert and United Farm Workers: Take our jobs

If you’re a fan of Stephen Colbert (and let’s face it, you should be) tune in tonight for a special announcement about a new campaign from United Farm Workers. Our country relies heavily on undocumented migrant laborers for much of the food on American tables. In the face of the current economic crisis and high [...]

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Legalizing Farm Workers: A Shared Necessity

Part 6 in the series “Immigration Reform: Know the Players”, from MaribelHastings.com.
How often do you think about the working conditions of the people who pick the fruit and vegetables you eat? And how many acres of farmland have gone unharvested for lack of workers, thanks to fear of increasingly aggressive immigration enforcement?
This year, proposing the [...]

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