trajectory of the fastest growing race/ethnic group in the US--the 30 million ...

Brimelow, Peter. 1995. Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster. New York, Random House. This book makes a cultural case against immigration, based on Brimelow's assertion that ...

Sociologist Douglas Massey launched the Mexican Migration Project in 1982 http://lexis.pop.upenn.edu/mexmig/welcome.html) to collect data from randomly selected ...

The share of US workers who were union members fell to 10 percent in 2022, down from 20 percent in 1983. The wage and salary workforce rose by 50 percent between 1983 and 2022 while the number of ...

GAO . The GAO released a report (25-106389) in November 2024 that called for more oversight of the H-2A program and enforcement of H-2A regulations. The number of H-2A jobs quadrupled between FY13 and ...

US agriculture is a 50/50 industry, meaning that half of farm sales are from crops and half are the sale of animal products. California agriculture is a 70/30 state, meaning that 70 percent of farm ...

Employment in California agriculture (NAICS 11) averaged 404,000 in 2020, 10 percent more than average agricultural employment of 367,000 in 1990. Seasonality, as measured by the peak-trough ratio or ...

The H-2A program allows US farmers who anticipate shortages of seasonal workers to be certified by DOL to recruit and employ H-2A workers to fill seasonal jobs for up to 10 months. There is no cap on ...

Many small island nations offer golden passports that grant citizenship in exchange for donations or investments of $100,000 to $1 million. Many industrial countries including the US offer investors ...

The H-2A and H-2B programs admit foreign guest workers to fill seasonal farm and nonfarm jobs, respectively. The H-2 program was created in 1952 by the Immigration and Nationality Act (Public Law ...

The value of US farm exports exceeded the value of US farm imports between 1990 and 2020. The value of US farm imports is rising faster than the value of US farm exports, leading to farm trade ...

How many farm workers are there in each state? This is a surprisingly difficult question to answer. A farm worker is usually defined as a person who works for wages on a farm, whether for one day or ...