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July 9 - Josh Rushing: Hard Work Still Makes Paltry Wages for Mexican Fruit Pickers

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The biggest farmworkers' strike in recent American history ended about a month ago, but the outcome is still not clear.  By one measure fruit and vegetable pickers who had been making $8 a day, may now be paid 10, 11 or 12 dollars a day, although some of that money may come not just from the growers but from Mexican taxpayers.  Josh Rushing, correspondent of Al Jazeera America's newsmagazine Fault Lines described for KSFR's Dave Marash on HERE AND THERE the work done for those paltry wages. For a full podcast of this episode of HERE AND THERE, Click Here. 

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