"Farmworkers are some of the lowest-paid workers in the United States, with average family incomes between $25,000 and $29,999 in 2020, so we would expect high rates of food insecurity among these families. Among families with six or more members, 44 percent fell below the federal poverty guidelines, which means that more children may be at risk of food insecurity.
But without data collection on the national level, we can only guess how many farmworker families are affected. Small-scale studies of individual communities of farmworkers may give us a better idea but are not a substitute for national data."
~ A. Reznickova
"How Many Farmworkers Are Food Insecure? It’s Hard to Tell - Union of Concerned Scientists"
https://blog.ucsusa.org/alice-reznickova/how-many-farmworkers-are-food-insecure/
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