Word: harvested
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...farm children in the U.S. As many as 300,000 agricultural workers under 17 spend more time in the fields than in school. In California, about 95% of these laboring children are Chicanes and Mexicans. Many receive hardly any education at all as they follow their parents from one harvest to the next. They are in the fields by sunup seven days a week, often in 100°-plus heat, frequently near dangerous farm machinery and toxic pesticides...
...congressional subcommittee laboring through forests of welfare statistics paused last week to report some disconcerting facts: a family of four in New York City, alert to their opportunities under welfare, Medicaid and a handful of other social-benefit programs, can harvest a yearly income of $8,959, an untaxed sum that is the equivalent of $11,500 in taxable wages. Such hypothetical rewards, in other words, operate as a real incentive not to work for a living. Indeed, the system makes it positively unprofitable to take a job, since that would result in massive disqualifications...
...Harvest Home, Tryon...
...these feeds, and perhaps corn as well. President Nixon acted after the Commerce Department reported that export commitments for June, July and August were so great that the nation was in danger of running out of the pea-shaped, yellow or green, protein-loaded soybeans before the next harvest begins in September...
Thailand, a traditional supplier, has left her rice-buying neighbors in panic by halting exports to fill her own needs. China, usually an exporter, has also cut back sales because of a poor harvest last year. Because of the war, South Viet Nam must still rely heavily on buying U.S. rice...