The recognition offered yesterday to leaders of the farmworker movement by US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack was welcome. The event was marred however by the audacity of the Secretary to stand in front of the leaders of the struggle of the farmworkers and proclaim “Si, se puede!” after he approved a proposal to largely end the [...]
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Tag Archives: Farmworkers
60 minutes on Texas Farmworkers
May 25, 2011
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Last weekend 60 minutes ran a story on migrant youth farm labor. The story features a Texas family staying in a TDHCA-licensed migrant labor housing facility. In the short online-only ‘extra’ clip below, 60 minutes reporter Byron Pitts is astounded at the fact the family is charged a damage deposit to stay at the facility. [...]
Read moreSeeking solutions to providing low-income housing in rural Texas
November 17, 2008
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Hereford, a Texas Panhandle community of about 15,000, will host an important meeting today to consider how to overcome the barriers to getting affordable housing developed in small towns and rural communities across Texas. While population growth rates in rural communities are often slower than those in urban communities housing needs in these communities are [...]
Read moreTexas farmworker housing problems impact state’s agriculture industry
October 13, 2008
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Motivation Education & Training, Inc (MET) the leading leading advocate and social service provider for Texas farmworkers. It was founded for the purpose of providing academic and vocational training to migrant and seasonal farm workers, with the objective of furthering economic self-sufficiency. MET has conducted programs to improve farmworkers’ housing situations since the 1970′s. Kathy [...]
Read moreAs the pumpkin season approaches there is not housing for farm workers in the Texas pumpkin capital
August 25, 2008
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The farm worker housing development in Floydada, TX and in the Texas Panhandle’s Floyd County is closed. Farm workers are present in fairly large numbers to tend and harvest pumpkins in a county that styles itself as “Pumpkin Capital, USA.” Housing is difficult to find. It used to be that thirty families or so would [...]
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Bo McCarver’s housing news clips for May
- Mitt Romney at private fundraiser: I might eliminate HUD – The Washington Post
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Bo’s housing news clips: Study finds zoning segregates lower-income students in lower-scoring schools.
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Texas LIHTC housing program rocked by second earthquake in two months
- Low-Income Housing Program Compels Building in Poor Texas Areas – NYTimes.com
