Undocumented immigrants, many of whom work in the fields of the Central Valley, stand to benefit from Calif. stimulus. Photo courtesy of mikeledray/Shutterstock California has always been a land of contradictions, with extreme wealth and extreme poverty tenuously coexisting side-by-side. From the Spanish colonizers’ exploitation of California natives, through the slave labor systems of the Gold Rush, on to the titans of big agriculture and their climate refugee workforce during the Dust Bowl, our state’s history is one of haves and have-nots.
The former, as Woody Guthrie noted in his iconic 1940 tune, “Do Re Mi,” enjoy “a garden of […]
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