As federal immigration sweeps have prompted protests across the nation, the border is eerily quiet, as would-be migrants stay ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to former teen farm worker and immigrant rights advocate Maria Lopez Gonzalez about new bills that would weaken current child-labor laws.

Given the CARE Act’s slim chance of passage, states could step up to close the minimum age requirements for farm work and hazardous farm tasks, especially leading agricultural states, many of ...

A pediatric occupational therapist brings her love for the outdoors and nature to a camp she started in Harlem for children ...

U.S. farms have faced worker shortages for years. Now compounding the problem: The children of farmworkers are leaving the fields, forcing farm owners to look to other countries for labor.

They toil in mines, tend crops, scrub floors. An author of a new report on child labor points to great progress in reducing ...

"Are you from ICE?" one of the women, a farm worker in a hat and purple bandana, asks us fearfully. After assuring her that we're not with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which has been ...

Newsom says his goal is to make sure migrant farm workers have secure living situations, both for their benefit and their children’s. He sees AB 2240 as the first step.

Wafler Farms never agreed to the contract. The family-run farm refused to bargain with the union, which was formed in 2022 by a majority of the approximately 90 people working there during the ...

They work with 2,300+ students from the Salton Sea to Palm Springs, assisting them with after-school programs and Saturday schooling. They also provide health, food, housing and medical resources.

A child distributes tomatoes at Huiai Farm in Yangliuqing Town, Xiqing District, north China's Tianjin, May 31, 2025. Huiai Farm covers an area of approximately 80 mu (about 5.33 hectares) and was ...

U.S. farms have faced worker shortages for years. Now compounding the problem: The children of farmworkers are leaving the fields, forcing farm owners to look to other countries for labor.