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According to the GAO, migrant workers' problems included wages below minimum wage, work in pesticide covered fields and a lack of adequate drinking water and toilets on the job. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimated that farm workers suffer nearly 300,000 "acute illnesses" per year due to these sub-standard working conditions...
...reports went on to say that these conditions effect entire families since most migrant farm workers are heads of a household and do not receive the Social Security and medical benefits to which they are entitled. Also, many children begin working in the same conditions, foregoing educational opportunities, in order to help support their families. The children work in the same miserable conditions as their parents...
Unfortunately, Hispanics have difficulties voting. Some, having migrated from repressive regimes, fear that participating in government will result in some form of persecution. More importantly, by definition the migrant farm worker migrates and consequently voting, or more specifically, registering to vote, becomes increasingly difficult...
Under the leadership of Cesar Chavez, the poor treatment of local migrant farm workers was beginning to attract national attention...
...badge, pulled a wagonful of sports equipment to her job at the park every summer, was elected president of her high school class and earned so many honors that her parents recall "being slightly uncomfortable at her graduation." She organized circuses and amateur sports tournaments to raise money for migrant workers. "Mothers in the neighborhood were amazed at how they couldn't get their boys to do much, but Hillary had them all running around," says her mother...