Hired farmworkers make up a third of the total agricultural labor force and are critical to U.S. agricultural … over U.S. immigration policies, have elicited increased interest in hired farmworkers. This 2008 profile serves as an …

additional 63,000 people did hired farmwork each week as their secondary job. Hired farmworkers were more likely than the typical … (42 percent) and South (31.4 percent) census regions accounted for almost three-fourths of the hired farmworkers. The rate … salary workers. Hired farmworkers were also more likely to be paid less than the minimum wage, and to be low-wage workers …

farmwork in 1996. Approximately 906,000 persons 15 years of age and older were employed as hired farmworkers each week in 1996 …. An additional 72,000 persons were hired as farmworkers each week as a secondary job. Hired farmworkers were more likely …