Farmworkers have been left behind by fractured labor and disaster aid systems
Story Date: 12/23/2020

 

Source: Victoria Bouloubasis, GREENBIZ, 12/22/20

On the morning of Sept. 15, 2018, 40 farmworkers at Riggs Brothers Farm stood up out of bed into water. Hurricane Florence made landfall in eastern North Carolina the night before, and they were waiting out the storm in their labor camp in Jones County. They scrambled to grab their belongings and waded out the door into waist-high water before spending hours calling 911 and farmworker advocates. Their boss, farm owner Randy Riggs, never showed up.

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