Rural Americans

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https://foodfirst.org/is-prison-labor-the-future-of-our-food-system/

The shrinking supply of migrant labor has caught the attention of lawmakers. Some politicians and private companies are using prisoners to harvest the food we eat, from onions in Georgia and Arizona’s watermelons, to Idaho’s potatoes and apples in Washington. In Idaho, a state lawmaker plans to sponsor a bill in the 2018 legislative session that would expand a program allowing agricultural businesses to use state inmate labor if they can’t hire enough workers. Six businesses in Idaho use a program that already exists in several other states.