Migrant Workers Poverty

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Migrant workers are child laborers in the USA that work on farms - they all leave their homes at certain times of the year to harvest crops in other parts of the country. Migrant work has a lot of problems because of poverty. Although it is very difficult migrant work does have solutions. Being a migrant worker is difficult: you are poor, have to move around a lot, miss a lot of school time and have to stay after class, and do farm work any time and in any conditions. Not to mention getting sprayed with pesticides, having barely any income, no insurance, no medical care, and if you did not work your family would be in huge debt. Migrant workers only go to school for part of the year and then they have to leave their homes with their parents

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