In its 45th season, Rainbow Farms grows the produce sold at nearly a dozen area farmers’ markets, its own farm market and for the kitchens of several restaurants. It also invites folks to pick their ...

"I'd rather be sent to Mexico than get hurt or die," one migrant farmworker told Newsweek n the condition of anonymity.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The Department of Labor has drawn up dozens of rule changes that will deregulate the workplace. The changes include allowing home health care workers to be paid below minimum wage, removing ...

Seasonal migrant farm workers at an upstate New York apple orchard are entering the new year with new labor protections under a hard-won union contract, the second such farm union contract in upstate ...

Surrounded by corn stalks and soybeans, priests and parish members throughout Northwest Indiana gathered at Herr Farms in Lowell to bring an outdoor mass to the migrant workers who are employed on the ...

A legal migrant farm worker was fatally injured while working at a major sweet potato farm in Nash County, marking the second such death at the same farm in just over two years. Daniel de la Cruz, a ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Leaders of a Michigan State University program that assists children of migrant and seasonal farm workers say they’ve been notified that their federal funding has now been ...

Roy McNutt was 17 when he spent a summer picking pickles for America. “It was lousy,” he said. McNutt, now 77, joined thousands of high school teens harvesting cucumbers, melons, strawberries and ...