Source: HEALTH AFFAIRS, 4/26/22

There are more than two million farmworkers in the United States and approximately 100,000 in North Carolina alone. A significant portion of these workers—83 percent as of 2016—are Hispanic or Latinx, and many are migrants. Despite forming a major cornerstone of US life and the economy, farmworkers do not have equal access to the resources and services that non-farmworkers do to maintain their overall health and well-being. One area with particularly pronounced disparities is health care...

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