Tomato Pickers

Workers at Bottom of Food Chain Illustrate Growing Economic Disparity

J. Richard Cohen | Posted 05.05.2008 | Politics


J. Richard Cohen

Tomato pickers make 45 cents for every 32-pound bucket they pick, which adds up to less than $10,000 a year. Their shameful treatment is only one example of what's wrong with our economy.

Just a Penny a Pound

Robyn Blumner | Posted 04.24.2008 | Politics


Robyn Blumner

It is hard to believe that this is America in 2008. It seems more like Upton Sinclair's turn of the century Chicago stockyards or Edward R. Murrow's H...


 

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