From migrant to mainstream. Many young workers leave farm fields for classrooms, better lives. (Good article out of Michigan)

Posted on: September 5th, 2006
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Raul will finish a master’s degree at MSU in Food Industry Management this year, which he hopes to use to assist others who work the fields.

“Raul is among the more than 40,000 migrant farmworkers who feed Michigan’s economy and provide produce to local grocery stores and Campbell Soup Co.

He also is part of an increasing number of migrant children taking the next step in the American immigrant story: Leaving the hard work on farms for better lives.”

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