This Issue Brief examines the causes of food insecurity among agricultural workers, describes federal programs intended to address food insecurity, and presents best practices and recommendations to improve food security for agricultural workers
This FJ issue brief informs service providers about policies and promising practices to promote language access for LEP patients.
Issue brief prepared for FJ’s Environmental Justice Symposium (May 17 & 18th, 2022) addressing the impacts of the climate crisis on farmworkers in the areas of heat stress, pesticide exposure, food security, and water access.
Summary of policy developments that affect farmworker health and access to health care. This issue focuses on heat stress and heat-related illness.
On February 19, 2021, Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Representative Linda Sanchez (DCA) introduced the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021 in the Senate and House, respectively. The bill, if passed, would create a path to citizenship for the country’s 11 million undocumented immigrants…
Letter from the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, of which FJ is a member, to House and Senate Leadership, on federal policing priorities and the need for statutory police reform.
Summary of policy developments that affect farmworker health and access to health care. This issue focuses on green tobacco sickness in migrant farmworker communities. Also includes Eye on Farmworker Health, a summary of academic research related to green tobacco sickness and pesticides in migratory and farmworker communities.
A coalition letter to EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt from more than 125 organizations, urging him to preserve existing protections in the rules and to move forward with full implementation and enforcement.
Written in collaboration with Harvard's Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation, this paper discusses the current state of telehealth in the United States, opportunities that telehealth provides for improving access to health care for rural residents, and the unique position that promotores de salud or community health workers occupy as potential facilitators of telehealth technologies in rural farmworker communities.
Summary of policy development that affect farmworker health and access to health care. This issue focuses on childhood obesity in migrant farmworker communities. Also includes Eye on Farmworker Health, a summary of academic research related to childhood obesity in migratory and farmworker communities.