During the 1930s, some 1.3 million Americans from the Midwest and southwest migrated to California, which had a population of 5.7 million in 1930s. The arrival of Okies and Arkies set the stage for ...

The Great Depression The 1930s were marked by farm labor surpluses. As the unemployment rate rose toward 25 percent, some 300,000 Mexicans who had arrived in the 1920s, as well as their US-born ...

US Immigration in 2025 Click here to download this blog post as a PDF file January 13, 2025 The US has 50 million or almost 20 percent of the world’s 280 million international migrants, far more than ...

US Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Imports Click here to download this blog post as a PDF file October 10, 2023 The US imports 60 percent of the fresh fruit and 40 percent of the fresh vegetables available ...

Labor in Fruit and Vegetable Agriculture Click here to download this blog post as a PDF file November 20, 2020 US households, what the government calls consumer units, spent an average $615 a year or ...

CA Farm Employment: Growing and Less Seasonal Click here to download this blog post as a PDF file October 10, 2023 Employment in California agriculture (NAICS 11) averaged 404,000 in 2020, 10 percent ...

Within the farm workforce, the share of hours worked by farmers and their unpaid family members fell from 70 percent in 1938 to 50 percent in 2017. Many farm operators have nonfarm jobs, and some ...

Golden Passports and Mobility Click here to download this blog post as a PDF file January 10, 2024 Many small island nations offer golden passports that grant citizenship in exchange for donations or ...

World Population: 8.2 to 10.3 billion Click here to download this blog post as a PDF file October 8, 2024 The UN in July 2024 projected that the world’s population of 8.2 billion would peak at 10.3 ...

The H-2A Program in 2022 Click here to download this blog post as a PDF file May 16, 2022 The H-2A program allows US farmers who anticipate shortages of seasonal workers to be certified by DOL to ...

US Imports of Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Click here to download this blog post as a PDF file February 24, 2021 The US imports almost two-thirds of its fresh fruit and one-third of its fresh vegetables.

California Farm Employment and Farm Workers Click here to download this blog post as a PDF file November 22, 2022 California agriculture employs up to 900,000 workers sometime during a typical year to ...