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...California State Migrant Health Office estimates that there are 160,000 migrants in the state agricultural labor force, which totals about 500,000. They may live in the same place for a season, but move through the year. Although I was unable to locate the 1963 California Housing Commission Report, references to it indicate that the main conclusion was that 80% of farm worker families lived in grossly substandard housing...
...California Housing Commission found as early as 1963 that 90 per cent of the state's farmworkers live regularly at the same residence, owning or renting their own homes. The Commission reported that "California's agricultural labor force no longer fits the classic picture of the migrant following the crops from town to town with no fixed place of residence...
...commission's conclusions are valid for the entire United States. The farm labor force is overwhelmingly non-migrant...
Most full time workers who are migrants are single males. They actually make more money than residential farmworkers because their traveling enables them to work peak harvests all year long. A nationwide study by the Wisconsin Employment Service in 1970 found that full time migrant workers averaged $12,000 in annual wages...
...Mississippi in 1962 to learn something about race problems. In 1968, he took part in demonstrations for ending the Viet Nam War, his main cause. In 1969, Brown briefly trudged California's dusty roads with Cesar Chavez, the Mexican-American who was leading his crusade to organize migrant farm workers...