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Daybreak Oct 1: USDA killing wage survey, raising questions about H-2A rates

10/01/20 9:58 AM By Philip Brasher, Steve Davies, Bill Tomson, and Ben Nuelle
KEYWORDS Amazon rain forest Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro National Farmers Union Rob Larew The Adverse Effect Wage Rate
USDA has announced plans to kill its survey of farmworker wages, a move the United Farm Workers claims is aimed at cutting wages for H-2A workers. In a notice posted Wednesday, USDA says the fall survey conducted by the National Agricultural Statistics Service is no longer needed because of data that is available from other sources.
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