White House Seeks to Lower Farmworker Pay to Help Agriculture Industry

[SummerMadness]

White House Seeks to Lower Farmworker Pay to Help Agriculture Industry

New White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows is working with Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to see how to reduce wage rates for foreign guest workers on American farms, in order to help U.S. farmers struggling during the coronavirus, according to U.S. officials and sources familiar with the plans.

Opponents of the plan argue it will hurt vulnerable workers and depress domestic wages.

The measure is the latest effort being pushed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to help U.S farmers who say they are struggling amid disruptions in the agricultural supply chain compounded by the outbreak; the industry was already hurting because of President Trump's tariff war with China.

When you ignorantly start a trade war and still try to attack immigrants because that's all you ever do. I look forward to the day those who seek to hurt the poor and vulnerable are wiped out of power.

 

[Ricky M]

I look forward to the day those who seek to hurt the poor and vulnerable are wiped out of power.

I too look forward to the 'rapture'

 

[Pommer]

Better get FAT NOW, because stuff like this is going to cause a famine.

 

[dqhall]

White House Seeks to Lower Farmworker Pay to Help Agriculture Industry


When you ignorantly start a trade war and still try to attack immigrants because that's all you ever do. I look forward to the day those who seek to hurt the poor and vulnerable are wiped out of power.

The income inequality gap is the greatest it has been since the Great Depression. The rich get bailouts for their companies. Migrant workers might get pay cuts. Since restaurants are buying fewer vegetables, part of the Florida spring vegetable crop rotted in fields. The administration asked for the reductions in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Congress did not agree to it.

 

[MIDutch]

The income inequality gap is the greatest it has been since the Great Depression. The rich get bailouts for their companies. Migrant workers might get pay cuts. Since restaurants are buying fewer vegetables, part of the Florida spring vegetable crop rotted in fields. The administration asked for the reductions in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Congress did not agree to it.

So the 1% get richer and grandma and grandpa might have to go back to eating dog food again to make ends meet. Sounds about right.