"Oregon has more than 100,000 farmworkers, many of them living in the Willamette Valley. They are the engine that drives the state’s $5 billion agricultural industry, harvesting fruit, tilling the soil and tending to livestock. A state study found the average income for individual farmworkers, including all sources of income, ranged from $17,500 to nearly $20,000 annually for workers in Oregon and Washington. Farmworker households in their entirety earn an average income of less than $25,000 a year."
~ Ben Botkin
"Oregon Congresswoman introduces bill to provide disaster relief to farmworkers"
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