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In other parts of the nation, the shortage of migrant labor has made it impossible to harvest acres of crops–leaving some of them to rot.
“In a hard line of work, this has been a particularly difficult year. Record gas prices cut deeply into the wages of migrant laborers. At the same time, many worried that they were less welcome than ever in a nation embroiled in a debate about immigration.
That led to a shortage of workers. In Illinois, some farmers took the unusual step of paying up to $100 per laborer to help cover high fuel prices earlier this year.”
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