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ieaglem5.bsky.social
That’s at 1:56 mark in the YouTube video.
August 10, 2025 at 10:23 AM
ieaglem5.bsky.social
The irony is the farm workers are judged by both sides as being moral - hard work. But no one offers to do right by them. ie,Better work environments. Better pay. Suffering picking strawberries isn’t what either side says. It’s being used.
July 18, 2025 at 11:43 PM
ieaglem5.bsky.social
I don’t think they had “judges” or the judiciary branch of government before. Somehow according to a YouTube video I saw, Congress in years past made the Executive branch as the ones doing the screenings. I could be wrong though…
July 18, 2025 at 10:52 PM
ieaglem5.bsky.social
The $45 contract. That ruins so many black and minority adolescents who dream of playing for the NBA. 10s of millions of teens - all think they have a shot at it so neglect training for a real job or getting involved more in school learning.
July 18, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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chloepoliticat.bsky.social
Some of the posters on this thread don’t realize that suicide rates among farmers is higher than veterans. Suicide rates for farmers started climbing in the 1970s after government policy changes ended New Deal agricultural programs and shifted to Big Ag corporate farming model.
Farmers' suicides in the United States refers to the instances of American farmers taking their own lives, largely since the 1980s, partly due to their falling into debt, but mainly as a larger mental-health crisis among U.S. agriculture workers. In the Midwest alone, over 1,500 farmers have taken their own lives since the 1980s. It mirrors a crisis happening globally: in Australia, a farmer dies by suicide every ten days; in the United Kingdom, one farmer a week takes their own life; and in France it is one every two days. Almost 300,000 farmers have died by suicide since 1995 in India. Farmers are among the most likely to die by suicide, in comparison to other occupations, according to a study published in January 2020 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Researchers at the University of lowa found that farmers, and others in the agricultural trade, had the highest suicide rate of all occupations from 1992 to 2010, the years covered in a 2017 study. The rate was 3.5 times that of the general population. This echoed a study conducted the previous year by the CDC and another undertaken by the National Rural Health Association (NRHA). Most family farmers seem to agree on what led to their plight: government policy. In the years after the New Deal, they say, the United States set a price floor for farmers, essentially ensuring they received a minimum wage for the crops they produced. But the government began rolling back this policy in the 1970s, and now the global market largely determines the price they get for their crops. Big farms can make do with lower prices for crops by increasing their scale; a few cents per gallon of cow's milk adds up if you have thousands of cows. -Time, November 27, 2019 As of April 2023, the suicide rate within the farming community exceeds that of the general population by three and a half times. Other findings from the students' report suggest: • Suicide rates in agriculture are higher than for any other occupation: 84.5 per 100,000 people, according to the Centers for Disease Control. • Studies suggest suicide rates may be higher as some deaths are reported as accidents rather than suicides. • Not all farm states are included in CDC farm suicide statics (California, lowa, Illinois, and Nebraska are excluded), further skewing the numbers. • Suicide rates appear to be higher in the Midwest than in California because of the diversified nature of agriculture in California and the greater likelihood of financial profitability among crops grown in the Golden State. • Access to mental health services remain limited to farmers because of the rural nature of their occupations. • Suicide rates are about 50 percent higher today than they were during the farm crisis of the 1980s.
May 1, 2025 at 12:45 PM
ieaglem5.bsky.social
It was always going to be about L.A. and NYC. Those metro areas have about a million “undocumented immigrants” each. A lot of it I don't understand because I don't live there.
June 9, 2025 at 12:41 PM
ieaglem5.bsky.social
Farms and other industries need to pay at least minimum wage, and follow the 40 hrs week with time and a half for overtime. It's the workplaces that are how “illegal immigration” is so prevalent.
June 9, 2025 at 12:32 PM
ieaglem5.bsky.social
No. A guy crying on camera’s not a good look though. Remember it is a macho culture in the US though. It'll just make it worse.
June 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM