{"id":848,"date":"2015-08-31T16:06:13","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T16:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/?p=848"},"modified":"2015-08-31T16:06:13","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T16:06:13","slug":"study-says-number-of-farm-workers-increased-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/?p=848","title":{"rendered":"Study Says Number of Farm Workers Increased in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study published by the <strong>U. C. Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics<\/strong> reports an increase in the number of agricultural employees in California.\u00a0 Using data from the Employment Development Department, the authors conclude \u201csince 1990, average employment in [California] agriculture rose 10%.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To support their conclusion, the authors \u201cextracted all SSNs reported by agricultural employers to EDD in 2007 and 2012, and tabulated their farm and nonfarm jobs in California.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Graph.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-849\" src=\"http:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Graph.jpg\" alt=\"Fresno lawyer\" width=\"547\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Graph.jpg 1607w, https:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Graph-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Graph-1024x561.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 547px) 100vw, 547px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The report states:<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cHired workers do most of the work in labor-intensive FVH agriculture.\u00a0 According to the National Agricultural Workers Survey, over 85% of the state&#8217;s farm workers were born in Mexico.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cSince 2010, average employment by crop support establishments has been rising by 10,000 a year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cOver 60% of crop workers employed on the state&#8217;s crop farms have been unauthorized for the past decade \u2013 10 percentage points higher than the U.S. average of 50%.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/graph2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-850\" src=\"http:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/graph2.jpg\" alt=\"fresno attorney\" width=\"456\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/graph2.jpg 1564w, https:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/graph2-273x300.jpg 273w, https:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/graph2-933x1024.jpg 933w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 456px) 100vw, 456px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the part that reminds you why we have persistent poverty in communities with an agricultural-based economy, such as Fresno County:<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cFour counties \u2013 Kern, Fresno, Monterey, and Tulare \u2013 had over 40% of all primary farm workers\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cAverage earnings for all workers with at least one farm employer were $18,000 in 2012,<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cwhile average earnings for primary farm workers, defined as those who had their maximum earnings in agriculture, were $15,000.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brandon Hooker, Philip Martin, and Andy Wong, &#8220;California Farm Labor: Jobs and Workers,&#8221; in Agricultural and Resource Economics Update, July 2015 (U. C. Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study published by the U. C. Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics reports an increase in the number of agricultural employees in California.\u00a0 Using data from the Employment Development Department, the authors conclude \u201csince 1990, average employment in [California] agriculture rose 10%.\u201d To support their conclusion, the authors \u201cextracted all SSNs reported by agricultural [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-developments","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":851,"href":"https:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions\/851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}