🍒 Ever live in a body that needs to eat food?🫑

"Food insecurity is tied to many complex issues—including the high and rising cost of living in California—and it is difficult to pinpoint rates of food insecurity among farmworkers. However, one recent policy change has the potential to expand access to nutritional assistance among older farmworkers: CFAP, which currently serves only documented immigrants, will extend coverage to low-income undocumented adults ages 55 and older in 2027. About 8% of undocumented farmworkers are in this age group. This policy shift suggests that although California cannot control macroeconomic conditions, natural disasters, or federal immigration policy, state-led improvements to the nutritional safety net can make food more accessible for the workers who plant, tend, and harvest California’s crops."

~ Paulette Cha

https://www.ppic.org/blog/californias-farmworkers-and-their-children-are-vulnerable-to-food-insecurity/