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California bill would pay farmworkers $1,000 a month to help endure drought, climate crisis
The Los Angeles Times via MSN ^ | April 27, 2022 | By Nathan Solis

Posted on 04/27/2022 6:49:17 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

As worsening drought conditions in California and the West take a heavy economic toll on agriculture, state legislators are considering a plan to pay farmworkers $1,000 a month to help them cover the cost of necessities.

The bill is meant to assist farmworkers who have fewer crops to tend as climate change limits the window for each growing season and cuts the Golden State's water supply.

Under the $20-million program, eligible workers would receive a $1,000 stipend for three years. It's unclear how many farmworkers would qualify.

Farmworkers would need to meet requirements to qualify for the program:

- Have at least one member of the household who is a California resident

- Have worked as a farmworker between March 11, 2020, and Jan. 1, 2022

- Will be working as a farmworker during the time they apply for the program and throughout the duration of the pilot project

- Have received benefits under CalFresh, the California Food Assistance Program or would have been eligible "but for the immigration status of one or more members of the household."

If signed into law, the program would go into effect Jan. 1, 2023.

Farmworkers, who are often Central or South Americans without legal immigration status, also face consistent and severe housing and food insecurity, Flores said. His focus is on Assembly Bill 2847, introduced by Assemblyman Eduardo Garcia (D-Coachella), which would allow undocumented immigrants to be eligible for unemployment benefits.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: farmworkers; globalwarming; hoax; propaganda
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1 posted on 04/27/2022 6:49:17 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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Sure thing, $12,000 will help out a lot, for a farming operation. That’ll barely feed livestock and won’t buy much seed or any fertilizer.


2 posted on 04/27/2022 6:51:54 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

You know, oilfield workers are suffering, too. I wonder if there will be stipends suggested for these workers who help keep America moving? s/


3 posted on 04/27/2022 6:52:39 AM PDT by oldplayer
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4 posted on 04/27/2022 6:55:37 AM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If we built the fence we wouldn’t have so many “farm workers” who needed help from the government.


5 posted on 04/27/2022 6:55:45 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's hard to "Believe all women" when judges say "I don't know what a woman is".)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Just another way for liberals to use the junk science of “climate change” to implement socialism.


6 posted on 04/27/2022 6:55:46 AM PDT by Restless
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To: carriage_hill
Sure thing, $12,000 will help out a lot, for a farming operation. That’ll barely feed livestock and won’t buy much seed or any fertilizer.

Please re-read the article.

This isn't about farm-owners, even thought the title of the article misleadingly makes it seem so.

It's about giving more tax-payer money to illegals.
7 posted on 04/27/2022 6:56:47 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
So we've gone from "global warming" to "climate change" to the "climate crisis".

I guess they will keep renaming it until it becomes something that is all-encompassing, completely subjective and impossible to prove or disprove.

The earth wasn't "warming" enough to continue to use the term, "global warming", so they switched to "climate change", but the earth's climate has been changing and fluctuating for billions of years, mostly without humans. So now they have pivoted to the "climate crisis". How can anyone be against addressing a so-called "crisis"?

What a complete f-in joke that so many people are falling for on a daily basis.

8 posted on 04/27/2022 7:01:11 AM PDT by American Infidel (Instead of vilifying success, try to emulate it)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Isn’t that nice ( said with a sweet Southern drawl)


9 posted on 04/27/2022 7:01:35 AM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This paying people not to work is getting beyond out of hand.


10 posted on 04/27/2022 7:01:51 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Socialism is great! …Until you run out of other people’s money to spend.” - Margaret Thatcher


11 posted on 04/27/2022 7:02:34 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Let me tell you the impact of the government paying rent for one of my renters who qualified. Before she could make the rent payments on her own. Now she is living even closer to her paycheck than before. The more money people who make bad decisions have the more they make bad decisions.


12 posted on 04/27/2022 7:02:49 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud. Sorry.)
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To: SoConPubbie

Thanks; missed that on only one cup of coffee. </smile>


13 posted on 04/27/2022 7:03:06 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Under the $20-million program, eligible workers would receive a $1,000 stipend for three years.

The market rate to bribe a lazy Democrat is about $25 per election, not $12,000 per year. This can only be a slush fund for Democrat corruption. As a rule of thumb, socialist government takes 50% of any money that passes through its hands. It's how socialists at the top always get rich.

Proverb: "He who begs for others is contriving for himself."

14 posted on 04/27/2022 7:04:29 AM PDT by Reeses
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Why?

Why aren't they helping video store rental clerks? They've been devastated by this whole streaming thing.

Why aren't they helping TV repairmen? No-one is calling them to come out to the house with their box of tubes and fix their console TVs.

Why aren't they helping full-service gas station attendants? Too many people are pumping their own, or charging their own.


The point is - it is incredibly short-sighted and counterproductive to simply reward unproductive behaviors. In medicine they call it treating the symptom not the disease. Here, some workers in one particular industry have been hit with a change to that industry. Gosh, they could go find other work, or we could pay taxpayer dollars to have them do nothing.

This is how you kill an economy. Instead of reacting, and workers going to places where there is work, or acquiring skills and branching out into other areas, they are rewarded for staying in a field (pun intended) that has too many workers for not enough work. Hey CA, I'd like to be a billionaire playboy. I know there's not much need for them right now, but that's the career path I've chosen, so please subsidize my lifestyle...

15 posted on 04/27/2022 7:09:57 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Vaccine mandates: they are not about health, they are about obedience.)
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To: Gen.Blather

Poor people are poor because they make poor decisions.


16 posted on 04/27/2022 7:15:32 AM PDT by Reeses
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The Cauliphonians have so much money they don’t know what the heck to do with it.


17 posted on 04/27/2022 7:20:08 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't blame me, I voted for President Trump. Let's Go Brandon! FJB!)
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To: eyeamok

Current water storage levels. Note the comparison to last year, same date.

http://cdec.water.ca.gov/reportapp/javareports?name=RES

And yes.... you’d think these morons would build more water storage but then, they’re morons.


18 posted on 04/27/2022 7:20:29 AM PDT by jcon40 (Machinery is only as good as its design and quality of parts. A citizen is only as good as...)
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To: SoConPubbie

NOW, I see what I missed: “farm workers”, “workers” etc. My bad. Thanks for reminding me to get more coffee. Heh.


19 posted on 04/27/2022 7:22:22 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: American Infidel
So we've gone from "global warming" to "climate change" to the "climate crisis".

You left out

Climate Catastrophe


20 posted on 04/27/2022 7:31:09 AM PDT by Roccus (First we beat the Nazis........Then we defeated the Soviets....... Now, we are them.)
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