Source: Judy Rife, TIMES HERALD-RECORD, 4/30/19

 
Hudson Valley farmers have been doing the math of a proposed state law that would require them to pay their workers overtime and finding themselves in the minus column. “I would have to gross another $22,440 over an eight-month season and nobody’s been able to tell me how I can do that,″ said Kira Kinney, who owns a 20-acre vegetable farm in New Paltz and relies on five workers. “Legislators assume we can pass higher costs along to consumers as higher prices, but it doesn’t work that way, not in agriculture.”

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