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Farmers markets

I have trouble going to farmers markets. Wife works in a bay area hospital and takes care of many Hispanic patients, a large majority do farm labor. I think working for Walmart would be a major upgrade vs what they get in return for working on the farm. However I do not know that all the farms that come to farmers markets use the same kind of employment or that is only for the mega corp farms selling to the rest of the country...

I know organic food is already "expensive" but it seems like they should do something to increase these peoples quality of life

Farm laborers get paid by how productive they are rather than by the hour. It's shit work but pays 2-3x more "per hour" than Wal Mart. Plus it's easy to pack in a lot of work, whereas Wal-Mart generally only lets employees work about 30 hours a week.

Not according to this.

"Farm workers had low individual earnings from farm work; the median income from farm work was between $2,500 and $5,000. Three-fourths earned less than $10,000 annually."

http://www.doleta.gov/agworker/report/ch3.cfm

Right, but they make all their money over a few months, so the per-hour take home is more than Wal Mart. I'm not suggesting that it's a good job, only offering an explanation as to why someone would choose to do it vs. a minimum wage job.

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