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To: johnboy
UCLA recently did a study on the relationship between farm wages and the price of produce (the proverbial $5 a head of lettuce, and all that). per the study, farm wages account for 15% of the price at the market. in other words, of your $1.00 head of lettuce or pound basket of strawberries, farm wages are about 15 cents.

Do you have a source for that? That is interesting.

What about restaurant and hotel workers? Landscapers? etc...

19 posted on 04/26/2006 1:26:07 PM PDT by conserv13
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To: conserv13

you know, i read about the study here on fr. i think. i seem to recall that there were at least a couple threads appertaining thereto, but i couldn't find them after a few searches. so i went to google and tried and failed again. hm. can somebody help me? or did i have a particularly realistic dream? i did, however, find the following page, which makes much the same points as did i, with the exception that it being a lefty source, their answer is to raise farm wages via government mandate (minimum wage, etc.), where i myself, and many on this forum, too, i believe, would rely on market forces (and enforcement of our immigration laws) to do the trick. but, for what it's worth: http://www.therationalradical.com/documents/farm_workers.htm


63 posted on 04/27/2006 12:26:56 PM PDT by johnboy
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