Word: migrant
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...private yachts and jets to relieve the pressures. Cuban refugees come to Miami to make a new beginning, while a million blacks chafe at the newcomers' ability to take away their jobs by working for less pay. Retired citizens in Hawaiian shirts fill the benches at Sarasota, while migrant workers pass silently through the state in their circuitous search for work. The whole makes Florida something special; the parts reflect the full range of U.S. society...
...company executive set up a new health plan for workers in the West Virginia and Pennsylvania mines he controls. In Washington, Coles is of ten consulted by powerful Congressmen of both parties. His testimony helped to launch the hunger crusade in the South in 1967 and to keep the migrant health program going when it was about to die in Congress two years...
...Migrant child...
Luck itself is alien to the children ?and adults?of Migrants. Sharecroppers, Mountaineers. Writing about the migrant way of life along the Atlantic seaboard from southern Florida to northern New York, Coles reminds his readers that "even many animals define themselves by where they live, yet we have thousands [some 300,000] of boys and girls who live utterly uprooted lives, who wander the American earth, who even as children enable us to eat by harvesting our crops but who never can think of any place as home...
Although they are without homes, migrant children in their earliest years are "quick, animated?tenacious of life." This does not last long, for hunger, disease and despair soon take their toll. "Migrant parents and even migrant children do indeed become what some of their harshest critics call them: listless, apathetic, hard to understand, disorderly, subject to outbursts of self-injury and destructive violence toward others...