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Summarizes features that are common to community colleges that have successfully implemented sustainability skills programs, and provides recommendations to seven different stakeholder groups who can help support these programs.

The U.S. Department of Labor’s National Agricultural Workers Survey (NAWS) is an employment-based, random-sample survey of U.S. crop workers that collects demographic, employment, and health data in face-to-face interviews. The primary purposes of...

Identifies options for streamlining the H-2A program and estimating the future supply and demand of farm labor.

Focuses on the increased production of labor-intensive fruit, vegetable, and horticultural specialty crops and its impact on farmworker employment using jobs and earnings data.

Describes a case study of policies related to farm labor supply and how these play out in labor markets in New York.

"This report profiles the farm labor use patterns in Michigan and the benefits of farm labor to Michigan agriculture and rural areas and also profiles the migrant and seasonal farmworker population in the state, identifies some of the current...

The objective of this study was threefold: to characterize levels of food security, food insecurity, and hunger among migrant and seasonal Latino farmworkers; to assess predictors of food insecurity for this group; and to describe the strategies...

Stakeholders in Yakima County, Washington requested this report because of an interest in identifying ways to encourage collaboration around the development of affordable housing for farm workers and community and regional economic development.

This study focused on the role of social ties and human capital in the integration of Latino immigrants into the local economy.

Focuses on ways in which educational programs targeting migrant and seasonal workers affect outcomes by quantifying the extent to which farmworker participants continuing adult education programs, such as types of programs facilitated by NFJP,...