I was thrilled to have Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism use my post, “Migrant Farm Workers in the PIGS, America, and Elsewhere: Noting a Balance Sheet Correlation” as her lede news link on Thursday. Unfortunately, I thought the post might have the potential to generate many comments for a variety of reasons but so far [...]
photo source: flickr by ah zut ~ “la cueillette des fraises”strawberry picking in Sonoma done mostly by Hmong farmers.This past week the NYTs article, “Hiring Locally for Farm Work Is No Cure-All” described how a Colorado onion and sweet corn farmer couldn’t find enough local help to work in his fields. There are well over [...]
