Extra Edition: Ag-Tech Jobs. Also, Wildfire Protections for Farmworkers.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25
PROGRAM # 9795 11:00 AM PT

Extra Edition: Ag-Tech Jobs.

The Biden administration will invest millions in California’s San Joaquin Valley to create an agriculture-technology hub and promote new, ag-tech and engineering-based jobs. But some worry these initiatives may not lead to better jobs for farmworkers.

Guest: Melissa Montalvo, Reporter, The Fresno Bee, Central Valley News Collaborative, Fresno, CA.

Wildfire Protections for Farmworkers. After months of pressure from farmworker activists, the government of Sonoma County passed a new evacuation access program geared to protect farmworkers during the wildfire season. The Agricultural Access Verification Card Program, prevents farmworkers from working in dangerous and toxic evacuation zones during wildfires to pick grapes and other harvests.

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